NECROLOGY 



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ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE, 



1851-52 to 1862-63. 



Br JOSEPH PALMER, 



Of the Class of 182(1. 






BOSTON: 

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by 

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NOTE BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION. 



The advantage of having in a compact and accessi- 
ble form the obituary notices contained in this volume 
is so obvious, that no apology for their republication is 
needed. It has been often suggested, but was brought 
about directly by a communication from a member of the 
class of 1811, written in Europe, to a friend in Boston, 
a little more than a year ago, urging that it should be 
undertaken at once, sketching a plan of operations, and 
promising a handsome subscription. This communica- 
tion resulted in a meeting of friends of the undertaking, 
and in the choice of a committee of publication, who 
issued the following circular, drawn up, at their request, 
by Hon. Edward Everett : — 

TO THE ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 

It is well known to the Alumni that an annual necrology of 
those who have died in the course of the year has, for the last 
thirteen years, regularly appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser 
on the morning of Commencement-Day. This necrology has, 
from the first, been prepared by Dr. Joseph Palmer of the 
class of 1820. Originally consisting of a very brief notice, it 
has gradually swelled to ample dimensions, embracing all the 
known facts of any public interest in the life and career of the 



iv NOTE BY THE COMMITTEE OP PUBLICATION. 

individuals commemorated. This work has been executed by 
Dr. Palmer with great diligence, fidelity, and good judgment. 
From his connection with a daily newspaper, he has derived 
early notice of the deaths as they have occurred; and he has 
then resorted to the most authentic sources, and especially to the 
class-books, since those records began to be kept, for all further 
accessible information. It may be said without exaggeration, so 
successfully has Dr. Palmer's work been performed, that no 
paper in the course of the year is read with greater interest, by 
every graduate of Harvard, than the Boston Daily Advertiser 
which appears on Commencement-Day. Nor is the interest of 
these articles likely to be confined to the present time. As they 
will unquestionably be the means of preserving from oblivion 
many facts which would otherwise perish, they will, for the 
classes to which they pertain, form the basis of any future 
Athaice Cantab ri gienses. The favor with which Dr. Palmer's 
necrologies have been received is not confined to the alumni of 
Harvard. They are scarcely less valuable to all who study 
American biography, and have served as a model for similar 
necrologies in the other New-England colleges. 

These articles, including that of the present year, fill above 
one hundred columns of the Daily Advertiser, and would make 
an octavo volume of about four hundred pages. They are far 
too valuable not to be collected in a permanent form, and it is 
manifestly a question of time alone when that shall be done. 

Thus far the preparation of them has been, on the part of 
Dr. Palmer, purely a labor of love. It has involved the em- 
ployment of much time; the consultation of many journals, 
tracts, and larger volumes ; continual reference to surviving 
friends ; and a voluminous correspondence. All this has been 
gratuitous, and that on the part of an individual whose stated 
occupation might seem sufficient to fill a busy day. It is mani- 
festly neither just nor honorable to the body of the Alumni, 
that this great amount of labor should continue without compen- 
sation. With this impression it has been proposed by some 
personal friends of Dr. Palmer, to take charge of the publica- 
tion of his necrologies in a handsome volume for his benefit. 



NOTE BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION. V 

To secure him from the possibility of loss, it has been deemed 
expedient, with Dr. Palmer's permission, that the copyright of 
the work should be held by a committee by whom the net pro- 
ceeds shall be applied for his benefit. ... As the volume will 
be of common interest to all the sons of Harvard, it is confidently 
expected that it will be so generally subscribed for as to yield a 
handsome compensation for the labor and care bestowed upon 
the work by its worthy compiler. 

Messrs. William Brigham of the class of 1829, Nathaniel 
B. Shurtleff of the class of 1831, and Henry G. Denny of 
the class of 1852, will act as a committee of publication; and 
communications on the subject and subscriptions may be ad- 
dressed to them at Boston. 

JOSIAH QUINCY. ROBERT C. WTNTHROP. 

EDWARD EVERETT. WILLIAM BRIGHAM. 

JARED SPARKS. NATHANIEL B. SHURTLEFF. 

JAMES WALKER. C. WILLIAM LORING. 

THOMAS HILL. HENRY G. DENNY. 
SAMUEL SWETT. 

Cambridge, July 15th, 1863. 

The enormous laboi' required, by such a compilation as 
this must be evident to all ; while few but those who 
have been engaged in similar works can appreciate the 
impossibility of perfect, or even approximate, accuracy of 
detail in items so various, and coming, in many cases, 
from such remote and uncertain sources. Many errors 
and omissions, resulting in part from the circumstances 
under which the necrology has from time to time 
appeared, have been corrected by the compiler ; but 
it is much to be regretted that but few, comparatively, 
of the friends of deceased alumni, have taken the op- 
portunity offered them by the public notice given a 
year ago, and lately repeated, to correct or add to the 
obituaries. 



vi NOTE BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION. 

The Committee have given much time to the arrange- 
ments for the publication of this work, in order that all 
sums received from its sale, after paying the actual cost 
of paper, printing, and binding, may go for the benefit 
of its compiler ; and they trust that the considerations 
set forth in their circular are such as will secure a speedy 
sale of the limited edition that has been issued. 

For the Committee of Publication, 

HENRY G. DENNY. 

Boston, July 20th, 18G4. 



PREFACE. 



The suggestion of preparing a necrology of alumni 
of Harvard College was made by Hon. Edward Everett 
to the compiler of these notices in the year 1851. He 
began the work the next succeeding year, and has since, 
at the request of the Executive Committee of the Asso- 
ciation of the Alumni, published it annually in the 
" Boston Daily Advertiser " on Commencement -Day. 
He acknowledges his obligations to Mr. John Langdon 
Sibley, the accomplished librarian of Harvard College, 
for the use he has been permitted to make of the notes 
and memoranda of the alumni, collected by him during 
his long connection with the college. The compiler 
intended to rewrite the earlier notices, as they were 
meagre and imperfect ; but he was unable to do it, by 
reason of having partially lost his eyesight. They are 
therefore republished nearly as they appeared in the 
" Advertiser." It is to be regretted that the necrology 
was not begun a century earlier ; for then much valuable 
information would have been preserved which is now 
irrecoverably lost. The compiler hopes, that, when he 
shall have passed away (which, in the course of nature, 
will occur at no distant period), the necrology will be 
continued by more able hands. 



NECROLOGY. 



1851-52. 

1785. — Dr. Samuel Emerson died in Kennebunk, Me., 
7 August, 1851, aged 86 years and 11 months. He was born in 
Hollis, N.H., 6 September, 1765. He served in the war of the 
Revolution, in the regiment of Col. Prescott, and was quartered 
at Cambridge at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill. 

1785. — Theodore Lincoln died at Dennysville, Me., 
15 June, 1852, aged 89. He was a son of Gen. Benjamin Lin- 
coln, of Hingham, where he was born 30 December, 1763 ; 
was one of the earliest settlers of the town of Dennysville, and 
was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and Sessions for the 
County of Washington. 

1788. — Henry Phelps died at Gloucester, 18 February, 
1852, aged 86. He was born in Salem, 10 November, 1765. 
His father was a shipmaster sailing from that town, from which, 
about the commencement of the Revolutionary War, he removed 
to Beverly.. He was lost at sea on his homeward passage from 
France in 1786. He was spoken by a vessel when sixty days 
out, being short of provisions and water, with his vessel dis- 
abled and leaky. On board of the ship that spoke him, he sent 
a letter for his wife, in a sealed bottle attached to a line, written 
in a strain of complete despondency as to his chance of reaching 
home. From the contents of this letter, it is supposed that the 
vessel must have foundered not long after it was written. His 

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son Ilcnrv was then in college. lie had to contend with the 
congenital difficulties of a club foot and an imperfectly developed 
right arm and hand ; but, not allowing them to discourage him, 
soon alter leaving college he commenced the study of medicine 
with Dr. Joshua Plummer, of Salem, quite a distinguished 
physician, formerly of Gloucester, who established him in busi- 
ness as an apothecary and physician in Gloucester, in 1790. 
lie acquired some practice as a physician, but soon abandoned 
that branch of his business. Being a man of lively tempera- 
ment and companionable qualities, his shop was the resort of the 
most respectable and influential men of the town. He was for 
some time postmaster in Gloucester, and also for many years 
the principal acting magistrate in the town. 

1790. — Dr. William Ingalls died in Wrentham, 9 Sep- 
tember, 1851, aged 82. He was born in Newbury port, 3 May, 
17G9, and was for many years an eminent physician in Boston. 

1792. — Nathaniel Chandler, of Lancaster, died at the 
Insane Hospital in Worcester, 4 June, 1852, aged 78. He was 
born in Petersham, 6 October, 1773. 

1792. — Rev. John Snelling Popkin died in Cambridge, 
2 March, 1852, aged 80. He was born in Boston, 19 June, 
1771. Ordained pastor of the Federal-street Church in Boston , 
10 July, 1799. Dismissed 28 November, 1802. Installed 
pastor of the First Church in Newbury, 19 September, 1804. 
Dismissed 5 October, 1815, having accepted the appointment of 
professor of the Greek language in Harvard College. This 
office he held till 1826, when he was appointed Eliot Professor 
of Greek literature. He resigned his professorship in 1833, 
but continued to reside in Cambridge during the remainder of 
his life. He was a member of the Massachusetts, Historical 
Society, and of the American Academy. 

1793. — Joseph Stoweiis died at North Chelsea, 31 August, 
1851, aged 77 years and 10 months. He was born in Chelsea, 
10 November, 1773. Pie was justice of the peace, town- 
clerk, town-treasurer, selectman, representative; and, in fact, 
made himself " generally useful " to the people of his native 
place. 



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1794. — William Crosby died at Belfast, Me., 31 March, 
1852, aged 81. He was born in Billerica, Mass., 3 June, 
1770. Soon after he left college, he entered as a student-at-law 
in the office of William Gordon, Esq., of Amherst, N.H., and 
in due time finished his legal studies with Judge Dana, of 
Groton, Mass. In January, 1802, he went to Belfast, and 
settled as a practising lawyer. He was one of the pioneer band 
of professional adventurers, who, at that early day, dared to 
penetrate this new region, and locate themselves east of the 
Kennebec River ; a tract of country then, as now, comprising 
much the largest portion of the now State of Maine. There 
were at that period less than a dozen framed houses in the vil- 
lage, with a few log cabins; some Indian-built wigwams, and 
not more than three hundred inhabitants in the whole town. 
Thus by his enterprise he became an early citizen of that unde- 
fined space called " Down East," and was the associate and the 
first legal adviser of the founders of that beautiful town. 

1795. — Oliver Crosby died at Atkinson, Me., 29 July, 

1851, aged 82. He was born in Billerica, Mass., 17 March, 
1769; and settled as a lawyer in Dover, N.H., in 1798. He 
subsequently removed to Maine. For several years before his 
death, he had discontinued the practice of his profession. 

1795. — Josiah Sturges died in New York, 22 February, 

1852, aged 78. He was son of Jonathan Sturges, of Fairfield, 
Conn., Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and was 
born 10 September, 1773. He was a merchant in New York, 
and was at one time Avealthy, but lost his property during the 
war of 1812. 

1796. — Rev. Nathan Tilton died at Scarborough, Me., 
4 October, 1851, aged 79. He was born in East Kingston, 
N.H., 2 July, 1772; was ordained pastor of the church in 
Scarborough, 10 December, 1800 ; and resigned his pastoral 
charge, 12 December, 1827. 

1798. — Thomas Cole died at Salem, 24 June, 1852, aged 
72. He was born in Marlborough, Mass., 29 December, 1779. 
He was preceptor of the Aurean Academy, at Amherst, N.H., 
afterwards teacher of the Ladies' High School at Salem ; a Fel- 
low of the American Academy. 



4 , NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1851-52. 

1 7 '. » s . — Rev. Abraham Randall died at Stow, 3 March, 
1852, aged 80. lie was born in Stow, 25 October, 1771 ; was 
fitted for college at Westford Academy, under the tuition of the 
late Levi Hedge, LL.D. During a part of his collegiate 
course, he was room-mate with the late Judge Story. He was 
ordained at Manchester, 2 September, 1802; dismissed Septem- 
ber, 1808, and returned to Stow. 

1798. — Dr. Robert Thaxter died in Dorchester, 10 Feb- 
ruary, 1852, aged 75. He was son of Dr. Thomas Thaxter, of 
Hingham ; and was born in that town, 21 October, 1776. He 
commenced his professional practice in Hingham in 1802. In 
1809 he established himself in Dorchester, and for more than 
thirty years was not kept from his professional business a single 
day by illness. 

1799. — Rev. William Frothlngiiam died at Belfast, 
Me., 24 June, 1852, aged 77. He was born in Cambridge, 
14 March, 1777. Ordained pastor of the Third Church in 
Lynn, 26 September, 1804 ; dismissed 7 May, 1817 ; installed 
at Belfast, 21 July, 1819. 

1800. — Benjamin Marston Watson died at Newton, 31 
August, 1851, aged 71. He was born in Marblehead, 11 Janu- 
ary, 1780. He studied law with the late Chief Justice Parsons ; 
but soon left the profession, and went into mercantile business in 
Boston. He was also president of the Mercantile Marine Insur- 
ance Company. 

1801. — Samuel Mather Crocker died at Milford, 
9 March, 1852, aged 69. He was a lawyer by profession, and 
practised successively in the towns of Douglass, Uxbridge, Fitch- 
burg, and Milford. 

1804. — Joseph E. Sprague died at Salem, 22 February, 
1852, aged 69. He was the eldest son of Dr. William Stearns, 
and was born in Salem, 9 September, 1782. Soon after he 
graduated, he took the name of Sprague, to which family his 
mother belonged. He was a member of the Essex bar, and for 
many years was an active politician of the Jefferson school. 
Under the administration of Jefferson, he was for a time one 
of the United-States marshals. In October, 1811, he was ap- 



1851-52.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 5 

pointed clerk of the courts for Essex County, and continued in 
the office about nine months. In 1815, under the presidency 
of Madison, he was appointed postmaster of Salem, and re- 
tained the office until the accession of Gen. Jackson to the 
presidency in 1829. Previous to this time he had served several 
years as representative from Salem in the General Court, as a 
senator from Essex, and as an executive councillor. In Sep- 
tember, 1830, he was appointed high sheriff of the county, 
succeeding his father-in-law, Bailey Bartlett, whose resignation 
of the office in the month preceding had been accepted, to take 
effect on the 14th of September. On the 15th, Mr. Sprague's 
nomination was unanimously confirmed by the Council ; and he 
remained in the office until his commission expired, about nine 
months before his death, when another person was appointed in 
his place. Mr. Sprague died of apoplexy ; and it may be men- 
tioned as a singular coincidence, that his grandfather, whose 
name he assumed, died in the same way, in the same room, at 
nearly the same age, in the same month, February, 1808. 

1804. — Dr. John Starr died at Northwood, N.H., 8 Sep- 
tember, 1851, aged 67. He was son of Dr. Ebenezer Starr, of 
Dunstable, N.H., where he was born 3 December, 1783; 
studied medicine with Dr. Matthias Spalding, of Amherst, N.H., 
and commenced practice in Peterborough, N.H., where he re- 
mained three years, excepting a brief absence, during the war of 
1812, as a surgeon of the Second Regiment of the New-Hamp- 
shire Detached Militia, commanded by Col. John Steele, of 
Peterborough. From Peterborough, Dr. Starr removed to 
Northwood, where he continued in practice thirty-eight years. 
He was a gentleman of the old school. His political principles 
were of the Federal stamp. He was constant at town-meeting, 
casting his vote for none but just men, whether upon regular 
tickets or not. 

1805.— Ward Chipman died at St. John, N.B., 26 No- 
vember, 1851, aged 65. He was son of Hon. Ward Chipman, 
(H.C. 1770), and was born in St. John, N.B., 10 July, 1787. 
He was appointed one of the justices of the Supreme Court 
of Judicature, 17 March, 1825 ; and was elected to the office of 



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chief justice of the same tribunal, 29 September, 1834. He 
resigned January, 1 85 1 . 

L805. — lvVv. Jokn White died at Dedham, 1 February, 
L852, aged 64. He was sou of Deacon John White, of Con- 
cord ; and was born in that town, 2 December, 1787. He was 
ordained pastor of the Third Parish in Dedham, 20 April, 1814. 

1806. — Thomas Prince Beal died at Kingston, 16 July, 
1852, aged G6 years and 5 months. lie was a native of 
Kingston, and was born 12 February, 1786. lie was formerly 
a member of the Senate of Massachusetts, and an eminent 
counsellor-at-law. 

1808.— Benjamin Band died in Boston, 26 April, 1852, 
aged 67. He was born in Weston, 18 April, 1785, and was 
one of the most distinguished members of the Suffolk bar. 

1810. — Rev. Joseph Ha vex died at Amherst, Mass., 
15 October, 1851, aged 65. He was son of Noah Haven, and 
was born at Holden, 19 June, 1786 ; ordained at Dennis, 
27 July, 1814; dismissed 12 May, 1826, on account of his 
health, and removed to Amherst to superintend the collegiate 
education of his son. On the 8th of June, 1836, his health 
having been partially restored, he was installed pastor of the 
Orthodox Church in Billcrica, and continued in this service five 
years ; at the elose of which period, on account of returning and 
increasing bodily infirmities, he felt constrained to relinquish the 
labors of a settled minister for ever. 

1810. — Dr. John Manning died at Rockport, 7 February, 
1852, aged 62 years and 6 months. He was born in Gloucester, 
Mass., 12 October, 1789 ; and was son of the late Dr. Manning 
of that town. 

1811. — Walter Baker, of Dorchester, died in Boston, 
7 May, 1852, aged 59. He was son of Dr. James Baker, 
(H.C. 1760), and was born in Dorchester, 28 June, 1792. He 
was well known as an extensive chocolate manufacturer, in which 
business he acquired an ample fortune. 

1813. — Dr. John Brown died at Lancaster, Erie County, 
N.Y., 27 February, 1852, aged 60. He was son of Samuel 
Brown of Concord, Mass., where he was born 10 January, 



1851-52.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 7 

1792. He studied medicine, but relinquished the profession, 
and settled as a merchant in the vicinity of Buffalo, N.Y. 

1814. — Ephraim May Cunningham died in Washington 
City, 26 May, 1852, aged 60. He was son of William Cun- 
ningham, of Boston, and was born in Fitchburg, Mass., 4 Feb- 
ruary, 1792. He was a lawyer by profession, and practised 
successively in Ashburnham, Lunenburg, and Sterling. He 
was afterwards an officer in the Boston Custom House, and 
finally was employed as a clerk at Washington. He ob- 
tained considerable notoriety by publishing, in the year 1823, 
what is known in political circles as the " Cunningham Corre- 
spondence." 

1814. — Aaron Prescott died at Randolph, 24 November, 
1851, ao-ed 64. He was son of Deacon John Prescott, and 
was born in Westford, Mass., 19 November, 1787; was pre- 
ceptor of Framingham Academy, one year after he graduated ; 
then studied law, and settled in Randolph, where he practised his 
profession with success during the remainder of his life. He 
represented that town once or twice in the Legislature. 

1816. — Rev. William Ware died at Cambridge, 19 Feb- 
ruary, 1852, aged 54. He was son of Rev. Henry Ware, D.D. 
(H.C. 1785), and was born at Hingham, 3 August, 1797. 
He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian Church in New York, 
18 December, 1821 ; dismissed 19 September, 1836. Installed 
at West Cambridge, December, 1843 ; dismissed 1845. 

1819. — Walter Rogers Johnson died in Washington 
City, 26 April, 1852, aged 57. His death was occasioned by 
inhaling noxious gas while performing some chemical experi- 
ments in the laboratory of the Smithsonian Institute. He was 
born in Leominster, Mass., 21 June, 1794; was for many years 
preceptor of an academy in Germantown, Penn. ; afterwards 
Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College at Philadelphia, 
and subsequently of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. 
He was one of the persons employed by the city of Boston, pre- 
vious to the construction of the water-works, ,£o examine Long 
and Spot Ponds, and ascertain which was the best source for 
obtaining a supply of water for the city. 



8 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1851-52. 

1822. — Joseph Green Cole died at Paris, Me., 12 No- 
vember, 1851, aged 52. lie was son of Capt. Abraham Cole, 
of Lincoln, Mass., and was born in that town in 1799. After 
studying law with Hon. Levi Lincoln, of Worcester, he settled 
in Paris, lie successively held the offices of clerk of the House 
of Representatives, representative to the Legislature, register of 
probate, clerk of the courts, and judge of the Western District 
Court. 

1825. — Dr. Augustus Sidney Doane died at the quar- 
antine station, Staten Island, New-York Harbor, 27 January, 
1852, aged 44. He was son of the late Samuel B. Doane, of 
Boston ; was born 2 April, 1808 ; settled in New York as a 
medical practitioner, and for several years had been employed as 
the quarantine physician of that port. 

1827. — Rev. William Matticks Pogers died at Dorches- 
ter, 11 August, 1851, aged 45. He was born on the Island of 
Alderney, England, 10 September, 1806 ; -was ordained at 
Townsend, 16 February, 1831 ; dismissed 2 July, 1835. In- 
stalled pastor of the Winter-street Church, Boston, 6 August, 
1835. His original name was Samuel Matticks Ellen Kittle. 

1828. — William Sawyer was instantly killed on the 
Fitchburg Pailroad in West Cambridge, near the Waverly 
Depot, 24 May, 1852. He was 45 years of age. He had 
been a practising lawyer in Charlestown ; but, a short time pre- 
vious to his death, had removed to Waltham. 

1830. — Franklin Sawyer died at Cambridgeport, 18 No- 
vember, 1851, aged 51. He was born in Cambridge, 18 June, 
1810. He was a lawyer by profession, but for several years was 
connected with the newspaper press. He was for a time edi- 
tor of the "Crescent" in New Orleans ; and, for about two years 
previous to his death, was one of the editors of the " Watchman 
and Reflector," in Boston. He was representative of Cam- 
bridge to the Legislature in 1851 ; and, at the time of his decease, 
was a member of the Common Council of the city of Cam- 
bridge . 

1834. — William Smith Cruft died in Paris, France, 
16 July, 1851, aged 36. He was son of Edward Cruft, of 



1851-52.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 9 

Boston ; was born 17 February, 1815 ; and was a merchant in 
New York, of the firm of Newbold and Cruft. 

1845. — George Washington Brown died at Charles- 
town, 7 December, 1851, aged 29. He was a native of 
Charlestown ; born 12 May, 1822, and had established himself 
as a lawyer in Boston. 

1845. — Dr. Paul Lewis Nichols died at Kingston, 
28 April, 1852, aged 29. He was a native of Kingston; was 
born 24 May, 1823, and had settled as a physician in lloxbury. 

1846. — John Adams Hastings died at Erie, Penn., 16 
October, 1851, aged 27. He was son of Jonathan Hastings, of 
Brighton ; and was born in that town, 16 July, 1824. He was 
preceptor of an ac demy in Erie at the time of his death. 

1847. — George Edward AVaters died at Henrietta, N.Y. , 
23 July, 1851, aged 23 ; born in Boston, 17 September, 1828. 
His death was occasioned by his being thrown from a carriage. 
He was son of the late Isaac Waters, of Boston. 

1851. — Arnold Welles Brown was killed on the Boston 
and Worcester Railroad, at Newton Lower Falls, 21 January, 
1852, aged 25. He was son of Dr. John Ball Brown, and was 
born in Boston, 19 January, 1827. He was very desirous of 
having a collegiate education, and entered the Boston Latin 
School for the purpose of pursuing his preparatory studies. 
But, while in the school, his father lost all his property by a fire 
which destroyed a large laundry and two dwelling-houses belong- 
ing to him. His hopes of going to college were therefore 
destroyed, and he was placed in a wholesale dry-goods store in 
Boston, where he remained a few months, when the firm was 
dissolved, and he was thrown out of employment. He was after- 
wards put into a dry-goods store in Dover, N.H., where he 
remained but a short time. Being still desirous of going to col- 
lege, he went to work on a farm, hoping to earn money enough to 
get a liberal education; but, as he was unacquainted with farming, 
his father determined to send him to sea as the best way to earn 
money to pay his collegiate expenses. He went to New Bed- 
ford, and was shipped on board a whaling vessel, and made a 
long voyage. After his return, he entered college ; and, with the 

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10 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1851-52. 

money he made in his whaling voyage, lie succeeded in going 
through college. After graduating, he made a tour as colporter ; 
and in the fall of 1851 he entered the Theological Seminary at 
Andover, where he remained until the following January ; when, 
about three o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st, as he was pass- 
ing alomj the viaduct on the railroad at Newton Lower Falls, he 
was caught between the cars and the railing of the bridge, and 
thrown from the latter by the passing train, which struck him 
down, and instantly deprived him of life. 






1852-53.] 



OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 11 



1852-53. 



1787. — Hon. Samuel Putnam, of Boston, died at Somer- 
ville, 3 July, 1853, aged 85. He was son of Gideon Putnam, 
and was born at Danvers, 13 April, 1768 ; commenced the prac- 
tice of law in Salem about the year 1790 ; was senator for Essex 
in 1808 and 1809, representative from Salem in 1812, and 
again senator in 1813 and 1814. On the death of Chief 
Justice Sewall, in 1814, he was appointed, by Gov. Strong, 
Judge of the Supreme Court. 

1790. — Eev. Micah Stone died in Brookfield, 20 Septem- 
ber, 1852, aged 82. He was son of Rev. Eliab Stone, of Read- 
ing (H.C. 1758), and was born in that town, 22 September, 
1770 ; ordained pastor of the Second Church in Brookfield, 
11 March, 1801. 

1791. — Ezekiel Hersey Derby died in Salem, 31 Octo- 
ber, 1852, aged 80. He was son of Hasket Derby, of Salem, 
where he was born 1 November, 1772 ; was early in life a mer- 
chant, but for the last thirty-five years was a conspicuous and 
active agriculturist. 

1793. — Rev. Charles Coffin, D.D., died in Greenville, 
Tenn., 3 June, 1853, aged 77. He was born in Newburyport, 
15 August, 1775, and was successively president of Greenville 
and Knoxville Colleges in Tennessee. 

1793. — Dr. Charles Williams Winship died in Rox- 
bury, 27 August, 1852, aged 78. He was son of Dr. Amos 
Winship (H.C. 1771), and was born in Boston, 22 June, 1774, 
and was considered a skilful physician. He practised succes- 
sively in the western country, in Havana, Cuba, in Boston and 
Roxbury. 

1794. — Hon. Charles Humphrey Atherton died in 
Amherst, N.H., 8 January, 1853, aged 79. He was son of 



12 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [18.32-53. 

Hon. Joshua Atherton (II. C. 1702), and was born in Amherst, 
14 August, 1773 ; read law with his father, and with Hon. Wil- 
liam Gordon, of Amherst (II. C. 1779) ; was admitted tit the 
bar, and opened an office in Amherst in 1797 ; appointed register 
of probate for Hillsborough County in 1798 ; representative 
to Congress from 1815 to 1817; represented his native town 
in the State Legislature in 1823, 1838, and 1839. 

1794. — Rev. David Kendall died in Augusta, Oneida 
County, N.Y., 19 February, 1853, aged 85. He was born in 
Athol, Mass., 20 March, 1768; ordained at Hubbardston, 20 
October, 1802; dismissed April, 1809, and removed to Augusta, 
N.Y., where he was installed over the Congregational Society in 
that town, and where he spent the remainder of his life. For 
several years before his death, he was unable to perform his cleri- 
cal duties, on account of a paralytic affection. 

1795. — Capt. Josiah Baktlett died in Newburyport, 
24 February, 1853, aged 77. He was a native of Newbury- 
port, and was born 15 September, 1775. After leaving college, 
he went to sea several years as supercargo, and subsequently as 
master. During the war of 1812, he sailed from Bourdeaux as 
commander and principal owner of the ship "Volant," with a 
very valuable cargo, bound for Boston. When he had nearly 
reached his port of destination, he was captured by a British 
cruiser, and carried to Halifax, and subsequently to England. 
He resided in England and France till the close of the war, when 
he returned to Newburyport, and resided there the remainder of 
his life, employed principally as a teacher, particularly of the 
French language, of which he had acquired a knowledge during 
his residence in* Europe. 

1795. — Thomas Beale Wales died in Boston, 15 June, 
1853, aged 77. He was son of Dr. Ephraim Wales, of Ran- 
dolph (H.C. 1768), where he was born 1 January, 1776. He 
was a highly respected and eminently successful merchant in 
Boston. 

1796. — Geoege Wingate died in Stratham, N.H., 12 
September, 1852, aged 75. He was son of Hon. Paine Win- 
gate (H.C. 1759), and was born in Stratham, 14 May, 1778. 



1852-53.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 13 

He did not study a profession, but devoted himself to agri- 
culture. 

1798. — Nathaniel Lord died in Ipswich, 16 October, 
1852, aged 72. He was son of Isaac Lord, of Ipswich, where 
he was born 25 September, 1780. For several years after leav- 
ing college, he was employed as a teacher. He was subsequently 
associated with the late Daniel Noyes, register of probate ; 
upon whose decease he was appointed his successor by Gov. 
Strong, in May, 1815, and held the office till he was removed 
by Gov. Boutwell in June, 1851. 

1799. — Daniel Adams died in Medfield, 2 September, 

1852, aged 73. He was son of Rev. Daniel Adams, of Water- 
town (H.C. 1774), where he was born 26 March, 1779. He 
fitted for college with Rev. Dr. Prentiss, of Medfield (H.C. 
1766) . On leaving college, he was appointed preceptor of Bris- 
tol Academy, where he continued one year ; after which he 
studied divinity a year with Rev. Dr. Bancroft of Worcester 
(H.C. 1778), when his fondness for the law led him to the 
office of Benjamin AVhitman, Esq. of Hanover, Mass., where 
he completed his studies. He then opened an office in Medfield, 
where he settled. He also had for a time an office in Hop- 
ldnton. With the exception of having once represented Med- 
field in the Legislature, he was never in public life. 

1801. — William Bartlett died in Newburyport, 28 De- 
cember, 1852, aged 70. He was son of William Bartlett, of 
Newbury port, where he was born 23 July, 1782, and was a 
merchant in his native place. 

1802. — Isaac Gates died in Harvard, 9 November, 1852, 
aged 74 ; found dead in his bed. He was born (supposed) in 
Charlestown, 7 May, 1777 ; was a lawyer successively in Con- 
cord, N.H., Brunswick, Me., Lynn, Mass., and Harvard. 

1802. — Henry Gardner Rice died in Boston, 26 March, 

1853, aged 69. He Avas son of Dr. Tilly Rice, of Brookfield, 
where he Avas born 18 February, 1784; Avas a merchant in 
Boston. 

1803. — John Farrar died in Cambridge, 8 May, 1853, 
aged 73. He Avas son of Deacon Samuel Farrar, of Lincoln, 



11 NECROLOGY OP ALUMNI [1852-53. 

and was born 1 July, 177!). He was appointed tutor in Greek 
in L805 ; and, in 1807, \\;is choBcn Ilollis Professor of Mathe- 
matics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College; which latter 
office he held till .June, 18.'} 1, when he resigned on aceount of ill 
health. 

1804. — Rev. Olivki: Brown died at Haddam, Conn., 
while on a journey from Lyme to Middletown, 9 February, 
1853, aged 7(5. lie was horn in Charlestown, 13 January, 
1777 ; was for some years chaplain of the State Prison ; was 
installed at Kingston, B.I., 1!) December, 1821, dismissed 
April, 1.835 j moved to Bozrahville, Conn.; was afterwards 
settled as pastor of the Congregational Society at Grass Hill, 
Lyme, Conn. 

L804. — SETH Low died in Brooklyn, N.Y., 19 June, 
1853, aged 71 years and 10 months. He was born in the 
West Parish of Gloucester, Mass., 19 March, 1782; moved 
to Brooklyn about the year 1827, where he resided during the 
remainder of his life, and was one of the most influential and 
useful citizens of that community. He was a prominent mer- 
chant in New York ; and his prosperity furnished him with the 
ability to give when needed, and his ripe judgment always made 
his donations discreet. At the time of his death, he was presi- 
dent of the Board of Supervisors, and also of the Association 
for the Relief of the Poor. 

1806. — Joiix BOIES Thomas died in Plymouth, 2 Decem- 
ber, 1852, aged 65. He was born in Plymouth, Mass., 28 
July, 1787. He commenced and pursued the practice of law 
in Plymouth till he received the appointment of clerk of the 
judicial courts for Plymouth County ; which office he held for a 
period of about thirty-eight years, when he resigned on account 
of ill health. He filled numerous municipal offices for many 
years ; was seventeen years president of the Old-Colony Bank ; 
was a member of the Convention to revise the Constitution 
in 1820 ; and was elector of President and Vice-President in 
1840. 

1806. — Dr. Timothy Wellington died in West Cam- 
bridge, 6 May, 1853, aged 71. He was son of Timothy 



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Wellington, of Lexington ; where he was born 8 October, 1781. 
After completing his professional studies, he settled in West 
Cambridge as a physician, where he resided till his death, always 
engaged in the active and arduous duties of an extensive and 
successful practice. 

1807. — Abiel Jaques died in Worcester, 7 October, 
1852, aged 72. lie was son of Samuel Jaques, and was born 
in Worcester, 7 March, 1780. He was teacher in Salem, 
Watertown, Newton, Brooklyn (Conn.), Palmyra (N.Y.), and 
Uxbridge (Mass.) ; then settled, as a farmer, in Worcester. 

1807. — Rev. Francis Parkman died in Boston, 12 No- 
vember, 1852, aged 64. He was son of Samuel Parkman, and 
was born in Boston, 4 June, 1778 ; ordained at the New North 
Church in Boston, 8 December, 1813; resigned 1 February, 
1849. 

1808. — Henry Codmax died in Poxbury, 4 May, 1853, 
aged 63. He was a lawyer in Boston ; he was born in Port- 
land, 1 October, 1789. 

1808. — John Fabwell died in Tyngsborough, 19 Novem-. 
ber, 1852, aged GG. He was born in Tyngsborough, 2 Octo- 
ber, 1785. He studied law with Hon. Asahcl Stearns (II. C. 
1797); settled as a lawyer in Tyngsborough, and became a 
member of the Middlesex bar. He succeeded to his father's 
landed estate in Tyngsborough, and the greater part of his lite 
was successfully devoted to agricultural pursuits. 

1809. — Major David S. Townsend died in Boston, 28 
January, 1853, aged 62. He was son of Dr. David Towns- 
end (I l.C. 1770), and was born in Boston, 19 April, 1790. 
Soon after he graduated, he entered a merchant's counting-room, 
where he continued till the commencement of the war of 1812, 
when he entered the army as lieutenant and adjutant in the 
ninth regiment of infantry, commanded by Col. Tuttlc. Du- 
ring :i skirmish on the banks of the St. Lawrence, he received 
a wound, from a musket-ball, through the leg, below the knee ; 
in consequence of which, his leg was amputated. Soon after 
the close of the war, he received the appointment of paymaster, 
which office he held till his death. 



1G NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1852-53. 

1810. — Dr. Benjamin Dixon Babtlett died in Cam- 
bridge, 7 February, L853, aged 63. lie was son of Samuel 
Bartlett, of Concord ; and was born 17 September, 1789; com- 
menced practice as a physician in that town in 1813; removed 
to Bath, Me., in 1816, and subsequently to Cambridge. 

1811. — HENRY Holton Fuller, of Boston, died at Con- 
cord, 15 September, 1852, aged G2. He was son of Rev. 
Timothy Fuller, of Princeton (H.C. 17G0), where he was born 
1 July, 1790. He was a distinguished lawyer in Boston. 

1812. — Dr. Abel Lawrence Peirson, of Salem, was 
killed on the New-York and New-Haven Railroad, at Norwalk, 
Conn., 6 May, 1853, on his return from New York, where he 
had been to attend a medical convention. He was son of 
Samuel Peirson, of Biddeford, Me., where he was born 25 No- 
vember, 1794; commenced practice as a physician in Maine; 
removed to Salem in 1819, and has been for many years con- 
sidered one of the most eminent of the profession in Essex 
County. 

1813. — Dr. Charles Augustus Cheever, of Portsmouth, 
N.H., died in Saugus, 22 September, 1852, aged 58. He 
was born in Lynn, 1 December, 1793 ; was for many years a 
highly respectable physician in Portsmouth ; came to Boston 
some months before his death on account of ill health, and 
entered the Massachusetts General Hospital to be under the 
charge of the physicians of that establishment ; but after re- 
maining some time, his disease being considered incurable, he 
left, and went to Saugus, where he owned an estate, and died 
soon after he arrived there. 

1814. — Dr. Nathaniel Brewer, of Boston, died in Pep- 
perell, 17 May, 1853, aged 57. He was born in Northficld, 
Mass., 23 July, 1795; and was a druggist of the firm of 
Brewers, Stevens, and dishing, of Boston. 

1814. — Arthur Middleton, of South Carolina, died in 
Naples, Italy, 9 June, 1853, aged 57. He was son of Hon. 
Henry Middleton, who was for many years American minister 
at St. Petersburg, and grandson of Hon. Arthur Middleton, 
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. lie 



1852-53.] ' OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 17 

was born in South Carolina, 28 October, 1795 ; was, for eight 
years, secretary to the American Legation in Spain ; married 
the Countess Benivoglio, of Rome, who survives him, with two 
children. He had resided in Naples with his family for three 
years previous to his death. 

1815 — John Dall died in Boston, 7 August, 1852, aged 
56. He was son of William Dall, and was born in Boston, 
22 February, 1797 ; was for many years teller, first in the 
New-England, and afterwards in the State Bank. He became 
insane some years before his death, and was for a considerable 
time in the McLean Asylum at Somerville. 

1815. — John Spragtje Whitwell died at College Hill, 
Cincinnati, 30 January, 1853, aged 57. He was born in 
Brunswick, Me., 17 September, 1795 ; was for a time a teacher ; 
afterwards a merchant ; and at the time of his death was 
Professor of Ancient and Modern Languages, and Belles 
Lcttres, in Farmer's College, Cincinnati. 

1816. — Dr. George Baker died in Chelsea, 25 Decem- 
ber, 1852, aged 56. He was son of Eliphalet Baker, of 
Dedham, where he was born 9 July, 1796 ; was a physician in 
Lancaster, next a druggist in Cambridge, afterwards resumed 
his profession in Chelsea. 

1817. — Richard Farwell died in Marlborough, 20 Feb- 
ruary, 1853, aged 63. He was born at Fitchburg, 23 July, 
1789, but removed with the family, when quite young, to 
Harvard. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and 
went to the West, — believed to Dubuque, Iowa; but subse- 
quently returned to Massachusetts, and established himself at 
Marlborough, where he resided the remainder of his life. 

1818. — Dr. Ralph Emms Elliott, of South Carolina, 
died in New York, 5 June, 1853, aged 55. He was born in 
Beaufort, S.C., 15 July, 1797; studied medicine with Dr. 
Hosack, of New York, but did not practise his profession. 
He was an extensive planter in South Carolina, but resided 
during the winter seasons in Savannah, Ga. 

1819. — Hon. Alfred Dwight Foster died in Worcester, 
10 August, 1852, aged 52. He was son of Hon. Dwight 

3 



18 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1852-53. 

Poster, of Brookfield (B.U. 1774), where lie was born 20 
July, 1800; settled as a lawyer In Worcester; was representa- 
tive, senator, and councillor in the state legislature. 

1820. — Rev. William Gragg died in Groton, 19 Novem- 
ber, 1852, aged GO. lie was son of Thomas Gragg, of 
Groton, where he was born 17 September, 1780; ordained at 
Windham, Me., 15 October, 1828; after a few years was dis- 
missed, and removed to Carlisle, Mass., thence to Bedford, and 
finally returned to his native place, Groton, where he passed 
the remainder of his life. His wife died 29 November, having 
survived him but ten days. 

1820. — Hon. Charles Paine, of Northfield, Vt., died in 
the village of Waco, Texas, July, 1853, aged 54. He had 
gone to that part of the country for the purpose of exploring a 
southern route for the proposed Pacific Railroad; and it was 
while in Texas that he contracted the disease common to the 
climate, which caused his death. He was son of Hon. Elijah 
Paine, of Williamstown, Vt. (H.C. 1781), where he was born 
15 April, 1799. After leaving college, he went to Northfield 
to take charge of his father's factory in that town. He became 
a manufacturer from necessity, and continued the business until 
the burning of his factory in March, 1848, — a period of nearly 
twenty-five years. By his influence and energy, the charter of 
the Vermont Central Railroad was obtained, and lie was the 
first president of that corporation. The Vermont and Canada 
Railroad, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, and the 
Ogdensburg Railroad, were largely indebted to him for their 
construction. In the year 1841, he was elected governor of 
Vermont ; which office he held two years, when he declined 
being a candidate for re-election. 

1821. — Henry Bulfinch died at Nahant, 28 January, 
1853, aged 55. He was born in Lynn, June, 1797 ; studied 
divinity, and preached occasionally, but, most of his time, was 
enfjao-ed as a teacher. 

1824. — John Thomas Philip Dumont died in Hallowell, 
Me., October, 1852, aged 50. He was a lawyer in Hal- 
lowell, and an ardent politician of the whig school. 



1852-53.] 



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1824. — John Greenough died in Paris, France, 16 No- 
vember, 1852, aged 51. He was son of David Greenough, and 
was born in Boston, 19 November, 1801 ; was an artist by pro- 
fession . 

1825. — Horatio Greenough died at the McLean Asy- 
lum, Somerville, 18 December, 1852, aged 47. He was son of 
David Greenough, and was born in Boston, 6 September, 1805. 
He was an eminent sculptor, and resided many years in Italy, 
pursuing his profession there with great success. 

1825. —Hiram Manley died in St. Mark's, Fla., 9 July, 
1853, aged 51. He was son of David Manley, and was born 
in Easton, Mass., 11 June, 1802. He settled as a lawyer in 
Tallahassee, where he resided about ten years, when he removed 
to St. Mark's. At the time of his death, he was judge of one 
of the courts in Florida. 

1825. — Sears Cook Walker died at the house of his 
brother, Judge Timothy Walker, in Cincinnati, 30 January, 
1853, aged 47. He was born in Wilmington, Mass., 28 
March, 1805 ; taught a private school in Philadelphia several 
years ; was for a considerable period actuary of the Pennsylvania 
Life-insurance Company ; a short time attached to the National 
Observatory ; and, for several years preceding his death, one of 
the assistants of the Coast Survey. He was a distinguished 
member of the American Academy, and one of the most emi- 
nent mathematicians and astronomers in the country. 

1826. — Eobert Rantoul, Jun. , died in Washington, D.C. , 
7 August, 1852, aged 47. He was son of Robert Rantoul, and 
was born in Beverly, 13 August, 1805 ; admitted to the bar in 
1828 ; in 1833 became a resident of Gloucester, which town he 
represented in the state legislature several years. In 1843 he 
was appointed collector of Boston ; but his appointment was not 
confirmed by the Senate, and he held the office but one year. 
In 1845 he was appointed United-States attorney for Suffolk 
District, which office he held till 1849. In 1851 he was chosen 
United-States senator, to fill, for a few days only, the unexpired 
term of Mr. Webster ; and, the same year y was chosen represen- 
tative in Congress from Essex District, which office he held at 
the time of his death. 



20 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1852-53. 

1828. — Thomas Piiilandki: Rtdee died in the Lunatic 
Hospital, at South Boston, 21 November, 1^">2, aged 47. He 
was son of Thomas Ryder, and was horn in Hallow ell, Me.; 
L9 August, L806. He taught school in Dedham for some time ; 
was afterwards a temperance lecturer, and for several years was 
a constable in Boston. 

182!>. — Ezra Weston died in Duxbury, 6 September, 
1*52, aged 43. He was son of Ezra Weston, and was horn in 
Duxbury, 23 December, 1809. He was a lawyer in Boston, 
and for a few years held the office of city-marshal. 

1830. — Isaac Appleton Jewett died in Keenc, N.IL, 
14 January, 1853, aged 44. He was born in Burlington, Vt. ; 
settled as a lawyer, first in Cincinnati, and afterwards in New 
Orleans. For several years latterly, he resided principally at the 
North, and was engaged in other business. He had travelled 
extensively, and published two volumes entitled K Passages in 
FoYeiffn Travel.'" He also wrote a series of letters from the 
West Indies, which were published in the " Christian Register " 
about three years before his death. 

1831. — Henry Frederick Friese died in Baltimore 
County, Md., about seven miles from the city, 24 May, 1853, 
aged 42. tie was son of Philip R. J. and Julia G. Friese, 
of Baltimore, where he was born 16 November, 1810. lie 
was fitted for college at the Round-Hill School at Northamp- 
ton, Mass., under the charge of Messrs. Joseph G. Cogswell 
and George Bancroft. By profession he was a lawyer, and 
practised in his native city, where for a time he held a jus- 
tice's commission. 

1831. — Frederick Furber died at the Lunatic Hospital, 
South Boston, 1 July, 1853, aged 42. He was son of Thomas 
Furber and Elizabeth Green (Foster) Furber, of Boston ; and 
Mas born 22 January, 1811. He was distinguished for his 
mathematical attainments ; and, after graduating, qualified him- 
self for the profession of a civil engineer. He was insane 
for twenty years ; the last thirteen of which he passed at South 
Boston, where he latterly beguiled the tedium of confinement 
by draughting plans lor similar institutions. 



1852-53.] 



OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 21 



1832. — William Prescott Gibbs died in Lexington, 27 
July, 1852, aged 39. He committed suicide by drowning him- 
self in a pond near his house. He was the eldest son of William 
Gibbs, of Salem ; where he was bom 5 August, 1812. He was 
a lawyer by profession. 

1833. — Be v. Joseph Harrington died in San Francisco, 
2 November, 1852, aged 39. He was son of Joseph Harring- 
ton, of Eoxbury (Y.C. 1803), and was born 21 February, 1813; 
ordained in Boston as an evangelist, 27 September, 1840 ; in- 
stalled at Hartford, Conn., 23 April, 1846 ; was dismissed ; went 
to San Francisco to take charge of the Unitarian society in that 
place, and died of fever a few weeks after his arrival there. 

1835. — Allen Crocker Spooner died in Boston, 28 
June, 1853, aged 39. He was born in Plymouth, 9 March, 
1814 ; was a lawyer in Boston. 

1835. — John Hunt Welch died in Dorchester, 9 Septem- 
ber, 1852. He was son of John Welch, and was born in Pen- 
nington, N.J., 17 November, 1814. He studied law, but 
left the profession ; went into mercantile business, and was for 
a time of the firm of Heard and Welch in Boston. 

1836. — Daniel Cook died at East Boston, 1 June, 1853, 
aged 35. He w T as son of Nathan Cook, and was born in Salem, 
4 January, 1815. After graduating, he went to the South, and 
kept school several years in Mississippi and vicinity. For the 
last ten years, or thereabouts, of his life, he resided mostly in 
Salem, and subsequently in East Boston, as a machinist. 

1837. — Manlius Stimson Clark died in Boston, 28 April, 
1853, aged 36. He was son of Rev. Pitt Clark, of Norton 
(H.C. 1790), where he w r as born 17 October, 1816; was a 
highly respected lawyer in Boston. 

1837. — William Davis, of Plymouth, died in Boston, 
19 February, 1853, aged 34. He was son of Nathaniel Mor- 
ton Davis (H.C. 1804), and was born in Plymouth, 12 May, 
1818 ; was a lawyer in Plymouth, and, at the time of his death, 
vice-president of the Pilgrim Society. 

1843. — Francis Whitney Bigelow died in San Francisco, 
11 July, 1853, aged 29. He was son of Tyler Bigelow of 



22 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1852-53. 

Watertown (H.C. 1801), where he was born 4 June, 1824. 
He was a lawyer by profession. 

1843. — Washington Vert died in Salem, 28 April, 1853, 
aged 37. lie was son of Jones Very, of Salem, and was born 
in that place, 12 November, 1815. For some time before lie 
entered college, he was a clerk in one of the Salem banks. 
After he graduated, he studied divinity at the Theological 
School in Cambridge. He preached one year, and subsequently 
was teacher of a private school in Salem. 

1844. — Francis Willard Sayles was killed on the New- 
York and New-Haven Railroad, at Norwalk, 6 May, 1853, as 
he was on his return from a journey to the South. lie was son 
of Willard Sayles, and was born in Boston, 30 September, 
1823. Was a merchant, of the firm of Sayles, Merriam, and 
Brewer, in Boston. 

184G. — James Morris died at Staten Island, N.Y., 
28 January, 1853, aged 27. He was born in the city of New 
York, 19 March, 1825 ; and was, by profession, a civil en- 
gineer. 

1847. — Dr. James Bemis Adams died of yellow fever at 
Curac,oa, West Indies, 16 January, 1853, aged 28. He was 
son of William Henry Adams, and was born at Lyons, Wayne 
County, N.Y., 12 January, 1825. He studied medicine, and 
received the degree of M.D. at the New-York Medical School 
in 1851. 

1847. — Mark Sibley Adams died in San Francisco, 
19 February, 1853, aged 25. He was son of William Henry 
Adams, and was born at Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y. , 10 April, 
1827. 

1849. — James Pierce, of Brookline, died at sea of con- 
sumption, 29 May, 1853, on board ship "Parliament," on the 
passage from Liverpool to Boston. He Avas son of James 
Pierce, and was born in Dorchester, 20 November, 1825. 

1849. — Augustus Warren Whipple was scalded to death, 
4 September, 1852, at Saugerties, N.Y., on board the steam- 
boat " Reindeer," in consequence of the bursting of the boiler. 
He had just completed his studies at the Theological School at 
Cambridge. 



1852-53.] OF HAEVAED COLLEGE. 23 

1852. — Alfred Wellington Cooke died at Weston, 
Mass., 3 August, 1852, aged 22 years. He was the son of 
Josiah Wellington and Sarah (Hancock) Cooke, and was born 
in Cambridge, Mass., 25 August, 1830. He began his prepa- 
ratory course for college at the Cambridge High School, where 
he remained till the last two years, which he spent at the classi- 
cal schoof of Edmund Burke Whitman (H.C. 1838), in the 
same city. During his last school vacation, before entering 
college, he suffered an attack of bleeding at the lungs, from 
which, in a few days, he appeared to entirely recover; but 
though after that his health seemed to be good till the last year 
of his college-life, yet the seeds of disease were probably lurk- 
ing in his system, and he gradually sank under confirmed pul- 
monary consumption. By class-day he had become so ill, that 
he was unable to take part in its exercises. During his whole 
college-course, he was an earnest, faithful student, and performed 
his scholastic duties with untiring perseverance. In spite of his 
failing health, he continued to labor, till, from bodily weakness, 
he could no longer attend the recitations. Never was a more 
worthy example of scholarly devotion shown than was displayed 
by him in feebly going to and from his college-exercises, after all 
could see that the hand of death was already upon him. His 
energy, though quiet, was indomitable ; and, if a resolute will 
could ever avert the approach of mortality, his would have 
done so. 

From his earliest years, he was impressed with the need of 
a religious life ; and, at the age of twelve, he made a profession 
of his faith, and united with the First Baptist Church of Cam- 
bridge (of which Rev. Joseph White Parker was then the 
pastor), 24 March, 1842. When very young, he had displayed 
great talents for music and painting. He played with much 
ability upon the piano and the organ ; and his first and untaught 
efforts with the pencil showed a hand by no means unskilful. 
He was extremely persevering, and never idle. When not 
engaged upon his college-studies, he was always busy with his 
brush or pencil, or playing upon some instrument of music. 
Careful in his choice of friends, and invariably preferring merit 



24 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1852-53. 

to numbers, he was faithfully devoted to those he had. They 
who knew him best thought most highly of* him, and warmly 
appreciated both his talents and his unassuming virtues. It was 
ever his earnest desire to visit Italy, for the purpose of perfecting 

himself in the arts lie loved so well. He would often exclaim, 
with true artistic fervor, "I shall certainly see Italy before I 
die ! " but Providence had ordained that lie should lo<?k upon a 
fairer land than that. 

Only a few days before his death, he received an appointment, 
at a liberal salary, as teacher of music in a Southern academy. 
He had applied for this in the hope that rest from mental exer- 
tion and a year's residence in a warmer climate might restore 
his failing health ; but, when the letter announcing his engage- 
ment reached him, he was too weak to answer it. Reserved 
and gentle in his manners, ever fearful of obtruding himself 
upon the society of others, cordial and kind towards all, his 
short life flowed on peacefully into the ocean of eternity. With 
his promising talents and abundant sources of enjoyment, 
he had much to live for ; and it is matter for deep sorrow, that 
a youth so bright was so early clouded by the approach of 
death. 



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1853-54. 



1784. — Thomas Greenleaf died in Quincy, 5 January, 
1854, aged 86. He was son of John Greenleaf, and was born 
in Boston, 15 May, 1767. He was for many years an apothe- 
cary in Boston : his shop was No. 62, Cornhill, now Washing- 
ton Street. 

1786. — Kev. Ebenezer Hill died in Mason, N.H., 27 
May, 1854, aged 88. He was son of Samuel Hill, and was 
born in Cambridge, 29 January, 1766 ; was ordained at Mason, 
3 November, 1796. 

1787. — Dr. Nathaniel Shepherd Prentiss died in West 
Cambridge, 5 November, 1853, aged 87. He was son of 
Nathaniel Prentiss, saddler, of Cambridge, and his wife Mercy 
(Pierce) , and was born in the old tavern building near Porter's 
hotel, in Cambridge, 7 August, 1766. He studied medicine 
with Dr. Israel Atherton, of Lancaster (H.C. 1762) ; and 
settled in Marlborough, where he remained twelve or thirteen 
years. He then removed to Roxbury, where he had charge of 
the Latin School eight years, and fitted many distinguished men 
for college ; he also practised medicine in Roxbury, and was 
town-clerk over thirty years. On leaving Roxbury, in 1850, 
he presented to the Roxbury Athenaeum a set of valuable books. 
For the last few years of his life, he resided with his son-in-law, 
the Rev. Mr. Banvard, in West Cambridge. 

1789. — Rev. Aaron Green died in South Andover, 23 
December, 1853, aged 89. He was born in Maiden, 2 January, 
1765 ; was ordained as pastor of the First Church in his native 
town, 30 September, 1795 ; resigned 8 August, 1827, and soon 
afterwards removed to Andover, where he passed the remainder 
of his days. 

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26 NECROLOGY OF ALUMXI [1853-54. 

1789. — Hon. Naiium Mitchell, of East Bridgewater, 
died suddenly in Plymouth, 1 August, 1853, aged 84. He 
was son of Gushing Mitchell, and was born in Bridgewater, 12 
February, 1761). He was a lawyer by profession ; was for 
ninny years ehicf justice of the Old County Circuit Court of 
Plymouth ; was representative in Congress at a most important 
period of our history ; was representative and councillor in our 
state legislature ; was for several years librarian of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society ; and published a valuable history of 
his native town. 

1790. — Hon. Samuel Chandler Crafts died in Crafts- 
bury, Vt., 19 November, 1853, aged 85. He was son of 
Col. Ebenezer Crafts (Y.C. 1759), and was born in Wood- 
stock, Conn., 6 October, 1768, where his father then resided; 
but the family soon after removed to Sturbridge, Mass., and 
Samuel C. was fitted for college at Leicester Academy, of 
which his father was one of the principal founders and patrons. 
Soon after leaving college, he moved with the family to Crafts- 
bury, where his father died in 1810, and where he ever after 
resided. In 1792, he was appointed clerk of the town ; which 
office he held, by yearly re-elections, for thirty-seven successive 
years. In 1796, he was chosen member of the legislature; and, 
the two following years, was elected clerk of the same. He was 
again elected to the legislature in 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1805. 
From 1800 to 1810, he held the office of first assistant judge 
of the County Circuit Court ; and, after that time to 1816, was 
chief judge. In 1816, he was elected a representative in 
Congress, and was continued a member for eight years. In 
1828, he was chosen governor of the state, and was re-elected 
in 1829 and 1830. In 1842, he was appointed, by the execu- 
tive of the state, to a seat in the Senate of the United States, 
in place of Judge Prentiss, who had resigned ; and, at the fol- 
lowing meeting of the legislature, he was chosen for the re- 
mainder of the period for which Judge Prentiss had been elected. 
From that time to his death, he retained no important public 
office, exept that of justice of the peace for the town. 

1796. — Francis Dana died in Cambridgeport, 28 Decern- 



1853-54.] OF HARVARD COLLECxE. 27 

ber, 1853, aged 76. He was son of Hon. Francis Dana 
(H.C. 1762), and was born in Cambridge, 14 May, 1777. 
He was a merchant by profession ; and he passed several years, 
after he entered into business, in Russia, Germany, India, South 
America, and the western regions of our own country. In the 
latter part of his life, he represented his native town in the 
state legislature. 

1797. — Hon. Daniel Abbot died in Nashua, N. H., 3 
December, 1853, aged 76. He was son of Timothy Abbot of 
Andover, and was born in that town, 25 February, 1777. He 
studied law with Parker Noyes of Salisbury, N.H. (D.C. 
1796), where he was a fellow-student Avith Daniel Webster. 
In 1802, he commenced the practice of law in Londonderry, 
N.H., but moved to Dunstable the same year. He represented 
the town in the legislature many years, and was once a member 
of the senate. He was president of the Nashua Manufacturing- 
Company for several years of its early existence ; president of 
the Nashua Bank many years ; president of the Nashua and 
Lowell Railroad Company for fourteen years after its incorpora- 
tion ; president of the Wilton Railroad from its organization 
till within a short time before his death ; and, for a long period, 
president of the Hillsborough-County bar. 

1797. — Rev. Freeman Parker died in Wiscasset, Me., 
24 April, 1854, aged 78. He was born in Barnstable, 13 
July, 1776; ordained at Dresden, Me., 2 September, 1801, 
and was minister there about twenty-five years ; when he resigned 
his pastoral charge, and removed to Wiscasset. On the fiftieth 
anniversary of his ordination, he went to Dresden, and preached 
an occasional sermon to his former congregation. This was the 
last discourse he ever delivered. He was blind for upwards of 
forty years before his death. 

1798. — John Abbot died in Westford, 30 April, 1854, 
aged 77. He was born in Westford, 27 January, 1777 ; and 
was a lawyer in his native town. 

1799. — Bartholomeav Brown died in Boston, 14 April, 
1854, aged 81. He was son of John Brown, and was born in 
Dan vers, 8 September, 1772 ; was a lawyer in Sterling from 



28 NECROLOGY OF ALU1IXI [18-53-54. 

1803 to 1809, when lie removed to East Bridgcwater, where lie 
continued in practice of his profession till about ten years before 
his death, when he removed to Boston. He possessed great 
talent for music ; and, in connection with the late Judge .Mitch- 
ell, he edited, for about. twenty years, the "Bridgewater Collec- 
tion of Church Music," in which book may be found many 
pieces of his composition. He wrote the calendars in Thomas's 
" Old Farmer's Almanac" for fifty-nine years successively. 

1800. — Rev. Joshua Bates died in Dudley, 14 January, 
1854, aged 77. He was born in Cohasset, 20 March, 1776; 
was ordained at Dedham as colleague-pastor of the First Church 
with the Rev. Jason Haven (H.C. 1754), 16 March, 1803; 
resigned 10 February, 1818, and, the following month, was in- 
augurated president of Middleborough College, Vt. ; which office 
he held till 1843, when he resigned, and was installed the same 
year as pastor of the Congregational Church in Dudley, where 
he remained till his death. 

1800. — Dr. John Dwight died in Roxbury (Jamaica 
Plain), 5 August, 1853, aged 78. He was born in Shirley, 
22 December, 1773 ; studied medicine with Dr. John Jeffries, 
of Boston (H.C. 1763) ; practised his profession in Boston 
till 1844, when he joined the "Community" in West Roxbury, 
where he remained about four years, continuing the practice of 
his profession among them. He then removed to Jamaica 
Plain, where he passed the remainder of his life. 

1801. — Josiah Adams died in Framingham, 9 February, 
1854, aged 72. He was son of Rev. Moses Adams, of Acton 
(H.C. 1771), and was born in that town, 3 November, 1781. 
He was a lawyer in Framingham. 

1804. — Andrews Norton, of Cambridge, died in Newport, 
R.I., 18 September, 1853, aged 66. He was son of Samuel 
Norton, of Hingham ; and was born in that town, 31 Decem- 
ber, 1786. In 1801, he entered college a year in advance, and 
was the youngest in his class. After graduating, he studied 
divinity, but was never ordained. In 1813, he was appointed 
librarian, which office he held till 1821. He was also, in 1813, 
appointed Dexter Lecturer. In 1819, when the Theological 



1853-54.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 29 

School was organized, he was elected Professor of Sacred Liter- 
ature, which office he resigned in 1830. In 1833—4, in connec- 
tion with Charles Folsom, Esq., he edited "The Select Journal 
of Foreign Periodical Literature," which closed with the fourth 
volume. The elaborate theological works of Professor Norton 
are well known. 

1806. — James Day died in Paxton, Mass., 16 December, 

1853, aged 74. He was born in Paxton, 14 December, 1779. 
After leaving college, he studied law, but soon relinquished the 
profession, and devoted himself to teaching in his native town 
and the vicinity. 

1806. — Abraham Moore died in Boston, 30 January, 

1854, aged 69. He was born in Bolton, Mass., 5 January, 
1785 ; studied law with Hon. Timothy Bigelow (H.C. 1786) ; 
and settled as a lawyer in Groton in 1809, where he resided till 
1815, when he removed to Boston. 

1807. — Rev. Joshua Chandler died at the Massachusetts 
General Hospital, in Boston, 31 May, 1854, aged 67. He was 
son of Major Abiel Chandler, of Andover, where he was born 

15 May, 1787; was ordained at Swanzey, N.H., 20 January, 
V1819 ; dismissed 26 November, 1822 ; installed in Orange, 

27 November, 1822 ; dismissed 31 October, 1827 ; installed in 
Bedford, 20 January, 1836 ; dismissed and installed in Pem- 
broke, 9 February, 1842 ; dismissed, and removed to Boston, 
where he spent the remainder of his days. 

1807. — Rev. Phineas Fish died in Cotuit (Barnstable), 

16 June, 1854, aged 69. He was born in Sandwich, 30 Jan- 
uary, 1785 ; was ordained at Marshpee, 18 September, 1812 ; 
and, for more than forty years, was a devoted and faithful mis- 
sionary to the Indian tribe at that place. 

1807. — William Coffin Harris died in Portsmouth, 
N.H., 22 November, 1853, aged 65. He was seized with an 
apoplectic fit in his school-room, fell on the floor, and died 
within ten minutes afterwards. He was son of Abiel Harris, 
of Portsmouth, where he was born 17 March, 1788. He had 
been a teacher in Newington and Portsmouth between thirty 
and forty years ; and, for faithfulness, energy, and thorough- 



30 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1853-54. 

aees in this capacity, was greatly distinguished and highly 
esteemed. 

1807. — Hon. James Cusiiino Merrill died in Boston, 
4 October, 1853, aged 69. lie was son of Rev. Giles Merrill 
(H.C. 1759), and was born in Haverhill, 27 September, 1784. 
He was a lawyer in Boston ; and., for many years, was one of 
the judges of the Police Court. 

1808. — Joseph Bolles Manning, of Eockport, died sud- 
denly in Ipswich, 22 May, 1854, aged 67. He was born in 
Gloucester (now Kockport), 5 March, 1787; was for several 
years a lawyer in Ipswich ; and afterwards removed to Glou- 
cester. 

1810. — Hon. James Gore King died in New York, 
4 October, 1853, aged 62. He was the third son of Hon. 
Rufus King (H.C. 1777), and was born in New York, 8 May, 
1791. He went with the family to England, on the appoint- 
ment of his father, in 1796, as minister from the United States 
to the court of St. James. He was placed at school near 
London for some time ; and was afterwards sent to Paris, where 
he also attended school. He returned to the United States in 
the year 1805, and was fitted for college by the Rev. Dr. 
Gardiner, of Boston. After graduating, he commenced the 
study of law with Peter van Schaick, Esq., of Kinderhook ; 
and completed his studies at Litchfield under the instruction of 
Judges Reeve and Goold. He afterwards turned his attention 
to commerce, and formed a commission-house in New York, 
which he soon after transferred to Liverpool. In 1823, he 
returned to New York, and became a partner in the banking- 
house of Prime, Ward, and King ; and subsequently, on its 
dissolution, was the head of the house of James G. King and 
Sons. 

1810. — Dr. Rufus Kittredge died in Portsmouth, N.H., 
21 February, 1854, aged 64. He was son of Dr. Benjamin 
Kittredge, of Tewksbury, Mass., where he was born 28 June, 
1789. His father, who died at the age of 81, had eight sons 
and three daughters. All the sons reached manhood, and were 
all physicians. Dr. Rufus was the last of the brothers. He 



1853-54.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 31 

had been a resident of Portsmouth since 1817 ; had an extensive 
practice in his profession, and enjoyed the confidence of the 
public. 

1810. — Dr. Thomas Gardner Mower died in New York, 
7 December, 1853, aged 63. He was son of Thomas Mower, 
and was born in Leicester, 18 February, 1790, but removed 
with the family, at an early age, to Worcester. He studied 
medicine with Dr. Thomas Babbitt, of Brookfield (H.C. 1784). 
Pie was appointed surgeon's mate in the Ninth Regiment of United 
States Infantry, 2 December, 1812, and immediately joined his 
regiment in winter-quarters at Burlington, Vt. On the 30th 
of June, 1814, he was promoted to the surgeoncy of his regiment, 
and continued on the New-York frontier till the close of the 
war, February, 1815. The war being ended, he was one of 
the regimental-surgeons, out of about forty, that were selected 
for the peace establishment. After nine or ten years' service on 
the frontier, the last two on the Upper Missouri, he was placed 
on special duty in the harbor of New York, and charged with 
the various duties pertaining to the station. Here, with occa- 
sional absences on duty, he was continued till the time of his 
death. 

1811. — Dr. Joseph Wheelwright died in Heathsville, 
Northumberland County, Va., 24 August, 1853, aged 61. 
He was born in Newburyport, 29 December, 1791. He es- 
tablished himself as a physician in Virginia, and for nearly forty 
years was actively engaged there in the practice of his profes- 
sion. His loss was deeply felt by a large circle of friends. 

1812. — James Foster Gould died in Canton, Miss., 
14 February, 1854, aged 61. He was born in a part of Dor- 
chester which is now South Boston, 24 November, 1791 ; was 
a teacher, first in Baltimore, and afterwards at the South. 

1813. — Edward Hinkley died in Baltimore, 28 June, 
1854, aged 63. He was born in Barnstable, Mass., 26 
August, 1790. He was a lawyer by profession, and for many 
years had been a prominent member of the Baltimore bar. 

1814. — Hon. Elijah Paine died in New York, 7 October, 
1853, aged 57. He was son of Hon. Elijah Paine, of Wil- 



32 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1853-54. 

liamstown, Vt. (H.C. 1781), where lie was born 10 April, 
179(5; studied law with Judge Cady, of Montgomery County, 
N.Y., and settled in New-York City as a lawyer about the year 
1823. In 1849, he was elected one of the justices of the 
Superior Court, and discharged the duties of his office as long 
as his health would permit. His term would not have expired 
till 1 January, 1857. 

1816.- — Rev. William Daniels Wiswall died in Roxbury, 
30 November, 1853, aged 66. He was son of Timothy and 
Diadama Wiswall, and was born in Milford, 23 October, 1787. 
His name, originally, was Lot Wiswall. He was ordained at 
Ellsworth, Me., 5 July, 1837; dismissed 5 July, 1839. He 
was never settled over any other society, but preached occa- 
sionally in various places. 

1817. — George Storer Bulfinch died in Boston, 7 
October, 1853, aged 54. He was son of Charles Bulfinch 
(H.C. 1781), and was born in Boston, 23 January, 1799; 
was a lawyer in Boston, and for some time librarian of the 
Boston Library. 

1818. — Thomas Cook Whittredge died suddenly of 
apoplexy, in Salem, 26 January, 1854, aged 54. He was son 
of Capt. Thomas Whittredge, of Salem, where he was born 
28 May, 1799. He adopted the maritime profession, and was, 
for some time, master of a merchant-ship ; but, several years 
before his death, he retired from active life. 

1820. — Rev. Alexander Young died in Boston, 16 
March, 1854, aged 53. He was son of Alexander Young, and 
was born in Boston, 22 September, 1800 ; was ordained pastor 
of the New South Church, in Boston, 19 January, 1825. 

1*22. — Hon. Charles Gordon Atherton, of Nashua, 
N.H., died at the Manchester House, in Manchester, N.H., 
15 November, 1853, aged 49. He died of paralysis, with 
which he was attacked in the court-house, in Manchester, 
while engaged in professional business. He was son of Hon. 
Chai-les Humphrey Atherton (H.C. 1794), and was born in 
Amherst, N.H., 4 July, 1804; studied law with his father; 
was admitted to practice in 1825, and soon afterwards opened 



1853-54.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 33 

an office in Nashua Village, then called Dunstable. He was 
elected to the state legislature in 1830, and in 1831 he was 
chosen clerk to the Senate. He was again chosen represen- 
tative in 1833-6 ; and was Speaker of the House during 
three of those years. He was elected representative in Con- 
gress in 1837, 1839, and 1841 ; was elected senator in 1842, 
and took his seat in the Senate in March, 1843. His term 
expired in 1849 ; and he was again elected to that place in 
1852, and took his seat in March, 1853. 

1822. — John Thompson died in Centre Harbor, N.H., 
21 January, 1854, aged 52. His house was destroyed by fire ; 
and while endeavoring to save an article of furniture which he 
highly prized, it being a present from his mother, he perished 
in the flames. He was son of Benjamin Thompson of Durham, 
N.H. , where he was born 2 December, 1801. He was a 
practising lawyer in Centre Harbor. 

1826. — Rev. Nathaniel Phippen Knapp died in Mobile, 
Ala., 17 February, 1854, aged 46. He was son of Capt. Jo- 
seph J. Knapp, of Salem, where he was born 25 June, 1807. 
He was for a time a lawyer in Marblehead, but subsequently 
relinquished the profession ; studied divinity, and became an 
Episcopal minister; was ordained priest at Jamaica, N.Y., 15 
March, 1837. In 1838, he was instituted rector of Christ Church, 
in Montgomery, Ala. ; and afterwards removed to Mobile. 

1827. — Thomas Kemper Davis died in Boston, 13 Octo- 
ber, 1853, aged 45. He was son of Isaac P Davis, and was 
born in Boston, 20 June, 1808. He graduated with the high- 
est honors of his class. He studied law with Hon. Daniel 
Webster ; was admitted to the bar in 1830, and opened an office 
in Boston ; but, for several years before his death, was an inmate 
of the McLean Asylum at Somerville. 

1828. — Charles Tracy Murdoch died in Cambridge, 
25 November, 1853, aged 44. He was son of John Murdoch ; 
and was born in Havana, Island of Cuba, 5 January, 1809. 
He was a lawyer by profession ; had an office in Boston, but 
resided in Cambridge. 

1830. — James Benjamin, of Boston, died in Springfield, 

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34 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1853-54. 

.Mass., 28 August, 1853, aged 42. He was son of Ashur 
Benjamin, and was horn in Boston, 2."> April, 1811. He was 
fitted for college partly at Exeter Academy, and partly at the 
Boston Latin School. He was a lawyer in Boston. 

L830. — Joseph Barney Williams died in Baltimore, Md., 
30 August, 1853, aged 43. He was son of Nathaniel Wil- 
liams (II. C. 1801), and was born in Baltimore, 1G October, 
1810. lie was fitted for college at the Round-Hill School, 
Northampton, and entered the sophomore class in 1*27. lie 
was a lawyer by profession ; and, for many years previous to his 
death, was notary-public and commissioner. 

1834. — Drausin Baltazar Labranghe died at his resi- 
dence in the parish of St. Charles, Louisiana, 25 August, 
1853, aged 38. He was born in that place, 12 April, 1815, 
and was by profession a lawyer. 

1837. — Edward Pixkxey Williams died in New Orleans, 
18 November, 1853, aged 34. He was born in Baltimore, 9 
June, 1819 ; and was a merchant in New r Orleans. 

1838. — Jonas White Thaxter died in Watertown, 1 
March, 1854, aged 34. He was son of Hon. Levi Thaxter, and 
was born in Watertown, 27 February, 1820. He studied 
medicine for a time, but did not pursue the profession. 

1842. — Francis Henry Appleton, of Boston, died at the 
McLean Asylum in Somerville, 28 May, 1854, aged 30. He 
was son of Hon. William Appleton, and was born in Boston, 
11 September, 1823. 

1843. — Dr. John Gardner Ladd, of Brooklyn, N.Y., 
died at Saratoga Springs, 19 August, 1853, aged 33. He 
was son of John II. Ladd, of Savannah ; and was born in 
Alexandria, D. C, 4 July, 1820. He was a physician in 
Brooklyn. 

1845. — Gorham Bartlett, of Concord, died at the 
McLean Asylum in Somerville, 17 June, 1854, aged '!>>. He 
was son of Dr. Josiah Bartlett (H.C. 1816), and was born in 
Concord, 22 January, 1826. lie commenced the study of 
divinity at the Theological School at Cambridge, but relin- 
quished it on account of his health. 



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1345. — Nicholas Lafayette Mark died in Tuscaloosa, 
Ala., 17 April, 1854, aged 29. He was born in Tuscaloosa, 
2 August, 1824, and was a planter by occupation. 

1848. — Edward Irving Bigelow died in Cairo, Egypt, 
9 April, 1854, aged 26. He was son of Tyler Bigelow, of 
Water-town (H.C. 1801), where lie was born 1 June, 1827. 
He was a lawyer by profession. 

1848. — Henry Wiiitcomb Holman died in Carrollton, 
La., 1 October, 1853, aged 29. He was son of Hon. Amory 
Holman, of Bolton, Mass., where he was born 8 October, 1824. 
He taught school in Jackson, Miss., in 1849-50; afterwards 
studied law in New Orleans, and established himself as a lawyer 
in that city. 

1849. — George Washington Cogswell died in Le Koy, 
N.Y., 22 April, 1854, aged 23. He was born in Peterbor- 
ough, N.H., 1 July, 1830, and was a student-at-law. 

1852. — Gorham Thomas died in Cambridge, 16 August, 
1853, aged 21. He was son of Dr. Alexander Thomas (H.C. 
1822), and was born in Boston, 8 September, 1831. He was 
a student of medicine. 

1853. — Edward Jar vis Tenney was washed overboard 
from steamship " San Francisco," 25 December, 1853. He had 
taken passage in that ill-fated vessel for Valparaiso, South 
America, where he intended to establish himself in mercantile 
business. He was son of John Tenney, of Methuen, where he 
was born 20 September, 1833 ; and was consequently twenty 
years of age at the time he was lost. 






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1854-55. 



1791. — Hon. Thomas Rice died in Window, Me., 24 
August, 1854, aoed 86. He was son of Dr. Thomas Rice 
(H.C. 1756), and was born in Pownalborough (now Wiscas- 
set), 30 March, 1768. He studied law with Hon. Timothy 
Bigelow of Groton (H.C. 1786). After completing his studies, 
he went to Winslow on horseback, carrying in his saddle-bags 
his clothes, and a few law-books which constituted his whole 
library. He commenced the practice of law in that town in 
1795, where he soon gained a lucrative business, and became 
successful as an advocate. In 1814, he was representative to 
the Massachusetts legislature; in 1817, he was elected repre- 
sentative to Congress, where he continued two terms. With 
the exception of two years, when he resided in Augusta, he 
continued to live in Winslow till his death. He was naturally 
of a cheerful and social temperament ; and had quite a taste for 
gardening, which he indulged to the last. He relinquished the 
practice of law about twenty years before he died. 

1792. — Hon. John Locke died in Boston, 29 March, 
1855, aged 91. He was son of Jonathan and Mary (Haven) 
Locke, and was born in Hopkinton, Mass., 14 February, 
1764. In 1769, he, with his father's family, removed to 
Framingham ; whence, in June, 1770, they removed to Fitz- 
william, N.H., then called Monadnock No. 2, and lived in a 
log-house. In May or June, 1772, he removed with the family 
to Ashby, Mass. He worked on a farm till twenty-two years 
of age, when he went to Phillips Academy in Andover, where 
he continued till he entered Dartmouth College, in the second 
quarter of the sophomore year. He left Dartmouth, and 
entered Harvard in the beginning of the junior year. In No- 
vember, 1793, he entered the law-office of the late Hon. Timo- 



1854-55.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 37 

thy Bigelow of Groton (H.C. 178G). In September, 1796, 
lie was admitted to the bar in Middlesex County, and opened an 
office in Ashby. He was elected representative to the Legisla- 
ture in 1804, 1805, 1813, and 1823. In 1820, he was a 
member of the Convention for revising the Constitution of 
Massachusetts. From 1823 to 1829, he was representative in 
Congress from the Worcester North District. In 1830, he was 
chosen senator from Middlesex to the Massachusetts Legislature. 
In 1831, he was a member of the Executive Council. In 1837, 
he removed to Lowell to reside with his son, John Goodwin 
Locke; with whom, in 1849, he removed to Boston, where he 
passed the remainder of his days. 

1792. — Dr. Hector Orr died in East Bridgcwater, 29 
April, 1855, aged 85. He was son of Col. Robert Orr, and 
was born in East Bridgewater, 24 March, 1770. Jle settled 
as a physician in his native town, where he passed his life ; and, 
besides having held offices of honor and trust, he was distin- 
guished as a skilful physician and a man of cultivated intel- 
lect. 

1793. — Thomas Wiggles worth died in Boston, 27 April, 
1855, aged 79. He was son of Rev. Edward Wigglesworth , 
of Cambridge (H.C. 1749), and grandson of Rev. Edward 
Wigglesworth, of Cambridge (H.C. 1710) ; -both Hollis Pro- 
fessors of Divinity in Harvard College. He was born in 
Concord, Mass., 2 November, 1775. At the time of his 
birth, his father's family were residing temporarily in Con- 
cord, to which place the students and teachers of the college 
had removed a short time before, in consequence of the occu- 
pancy of Cambridge and the university buildings by the Ameri- 
can forces collected to besiege the British army, who were then 
in possession of Boston. Mr. Wigglesworth, immediately after 
graduating, commenced the study of law at Salisbury, N.H., 
near the residence of the family of the late Daniel Webster, 
whom he remembered very well as a boy. In a few months, he 
discontinued his legal studies, and went to Newburyport, where 
he entered the counting-room of Messrs. Searle and Tyler. At 
the age of twenty-one, he came to Boston, and soon formed a 



38 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1854-5-3. 

copartnership with William Sawyer, Esq. (H.C. 1788), who 
survived him for a few years. They carried on business 
together for several years. Mr. Wigglesworth early engaged 
in the Russia and India trade, and continued in the latter to 
the end of his life, having accumulated a large fortune. He 
was connected, as a director, with several of our financial insti- 
tutions, and was respected for his industry, integrity, and capacity 
for business ; but he was retiring in his habits, and never served 
in any state or city office, except for a short time on the school- 
committee. 

IT!'."). — Samuel Adams Dorr died in Boston, 25 Febru- 
ary, 1855, aged 79. He was son of Ebenezcr Dorr, of Bos- 
ton, and was born in Medfield, Mass. (where his parents 
resided during the siege of Boston), 1 July, 1775. He studied 
law with Gov. James Sullivan, but relinquished the profession; 
engaged in commercial pursuits; went abroad, and passed many 
years of his life in foreign countries. 

1796. — Rev. Leonard Woods died in Andover, Mass., 
24 August, 1854, aged 80. He was son of Samuel and Abi- 
gail Woods, and was born in Princeton, Mass., 19 June, 1774. 
He commenced the study of Latin with the parish minister of 
Princeton ; and, after three years, he entered as freshman in 
1792, having received but three months' regular instruction, 
which he obtained at Leicester Academy, under the tuition of 
Ebenezcr Adams (D.C. 1791, afterwards professor in Dart- 
mouth College), and graduated with the highest honors of his 
class. For eight months after he left college, he was engaged 
as a teacher in Medford. He united with Rev. Dr. Osgood's 
church in Medford in 1797. In the autumn of the same year, 
he studied theology three months with Rev. Dr. Charles Backus, 
at Somers, Conn. (Y.C. 1769). The following winter lie 
continued his studies at home. In the spring of 1798, he was 
licensed to preach, and was ordained pastor of the Fourth 
Church in Newbury, 5 December, 1798. He was dismissed 
26 May, 1808 ; was inaugurated Professor of Theology in the 
Institution at Andover, 20 September, 1808 ; and continued to 
give instruction till 1846, when his active connection with the 



1854-55.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 39 

seminary ceased. After that time, he was engaged in revising 
and giving to the world his lectures and other writings, in an 
edition of five volumes ; and in preparing a history of the semi- 
nary, which was nearly or quite completed at the time of his 
death. 

1797. — Dr. Henry Gardner died in Charlestown, Mass., 
22 August, 1854, aged 81. He was born in Charlestown, 13 
September, 1772 ; and settled as a physician in his native town, 
where he passed his life. 

1800. — Hon. Leonard Jarvis died in Surry, Me., 18 
September, 1854, aged G2. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., 
19 October, 1781. Immediately after leaving college, he en- 
tered the countinjr-room of the late David Greene and Son, where 
he acquired a knowledge of commerce, and habits of business, 
which entitle him to an honorable name among the merchants 
of Boston. He became subsequently connected with mercan- 
tile operations, in the prosecution of which he spent several years 
abroad, chiefly in France and South America. On his return 
home, he settled in Maine, where he filled various important 
positions ; being at one time collector of Eastport, afterwards 
sheriff of Hancock County. In the year 1831-33, he represented 
his district in the Congress of the United States. He was a 
prominent politician in the Democratic party. Under the ad- 
ministration of President Van Buren, he was appointed navy 
agent for the port of Boston. From this post he was removed 
by the administration of Gen. Harrison ; and soon afterwards 
returned to Maine, where he spent the closing years of his life 
in the pursuits of agriculture and literature. 

1802. — Rev. James Flint died in Salem, 4 March, 1855, 
aged 73, He was born in Reading, 10 December, 1781. After 
leaving college, he spent a few years in teaching ; then studied 
divinity with the Rev. Joshua Bates, D.D., of Dedham (H.C. 
1800) . On finishing his studies, he received a call from the First 
Church and Society in East Bridge water, Mass. ; which he ac- 
cepted, and was ordained 29 October, 1806. Possessing a fine 
taste for horticulture, he improved it by embellishing the grounds 
about his house, and made it one of the most attractive places 



40 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1854-65. 

of residence in the county. Here, too, lie cultivated his love 
for classical literature by superintending the education of stu- 
dents who were committed to his care by the college government. 

lie occasionally wrote poetry, and contributed largely to the 
literary journals of the day. 

At his own request, his connection with the church in East 
Bridgewater was dissolved 6 April, 1821 ; when he was invited 
by the East Church and Society in Salem to supply their pulpit, 
then vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. William Bentley (II.C. 
1777). After officiating a few sabbaths, he received an invita- 
tion for a permanent settlement, which he accepted, and was 
installed 20 September, 1821 ; and continued to be the sole 
pastor till the installation of his colleague, the Rev. Dexter 
Clapp, 17 December, 1851. His ready humor, lively sympa- 
thy, and rare conversational powers, peculiarly fitted him for 
discharging parochial duties ; and in these he was eminently 
successful. 

1803. — Hon. Josiah Butler died in Deerfield, N.H., 29 
October, 1854, aged 74. He was son of Nehemiah and Lydia 
(Wood) Butler, and was born in Pelham, N.H., 4 December, 
1779. At the age of 14, he was sent to the academy in Lon- 
donderry, N.H., and subsequently to Atkinson Academy, where 
he completed his preparation for college under the instruction 
of William Merchant Richardson (H.C. 1797). Immediately 
after leaving college, he entered, as a student-at-law, the office 
of Hon. Clifton Claggett, of Amherst, N.H., where he remained 
a short time, and then went to Virginia, where he resided in 
1804, 1805, and 1806; taught an academy; pursued his law 
studies in the offices of Gov. Cabot and Jacob Kinney, Esq., and 
w r as admitted to practice in that State. In 1807, he returned to 
New Hampshire, and practised law in his native town about 
two years, during which time he represented the town in the 
State Legislature. In 1809, he removed to Deerfield, where 
he resided during the remainder of his life. In 1810, he was 
appointed high sheriff of the county of Rockingham, and contin- 
ued in that office nearly four years. In 1815 and 1816, he 
was elected a representative of Deerfield; and, in 1816, he held 



1854-55.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 41 

the office of clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1816, 
1817, he was nominated and elected a representative to Congress ; 
and, by successive elections, continued in Congress six years. In 
1825, he was appointed associate justice of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas ; and continued in that office till 1833, when the 
court was abolished. He then returned to the practice of law, 
which he continued a few years ; and was subsequently engaged 
in agriculture. A few years since, he was appointed postmaster 
at South Deerfield, which office he held at the time of his 
decease. 

1803. — Rev. Jacob Coggin died in Tewksbury, Mass., 12 
December, 1854, aged 72. He was son of Jacob Coggin, of 
Woburn (H.C. 1763), and was born in that town, 5 Septem- 
ber, 1782. He studied theology with his pastor, the Rev. 
Joseph Chickering (H.C. 1799), then of Woburn. In April, 
1806, he received an invitation to take the pastoral charge of 
the church and society in Tewksbury, and was ordained on the 
22nd of October of the same year. He continued his ministry 
till 1847, when the Rev. Mr. Tolman was settled as a colleague 
with him. After that time, he was twice a representative to the 
legislature; in 1852, was chosen one of the Presidential elect- 
ors ; and, in 1853, was a delegate to the Convention for revising 
the Constitution of the State. Upon the establishment of the 
state alms-house in Tewksbury, he was appointed by Gov. Clif- 
ford one of the inspectors, and was chaplain of it till the time 
of his decease. He was one of the pioneers in the temperance 
cause, and served as agent for it in all the towns around him. 
Three sabbaths before his death, he preached his last sermon 
from the fourteenth verse of the ninety-second psalm, " They shall 
bring forth fruit in old age." Two of his sons have been educated 
for the ministry : one died in the ministry, at West Hampton. 

1804. — Dr. John Merrill died in Portland, Me., 7 June, 
1855, aged 73. He was son of Thomas Merrill, by his fourth 
wife; and was born in Conway, N.H., 2 March, 1782. He 
was highly respected as a skilful physician and good citizen. 

1808. — Col. John Bliss died in St. Augustine, Fla., 22 
November, 1854, aged 66. He was born in Haverhill, N.H., 

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26 April, 1788. After leaving college, he entered the United- 
States army. lie was appointed first lieutenant in the Eleventh 
Regiment of Infantry, 12 March, 1812 ; and made captain in 
May, 1813. He distinguished himself, and was wounded in the 
battle of Niagara Falls, 25 July, 1814. When the army was 
re-organized, in May, 1815, he was retained in the Sixth Regi- 
ment of Infantry. From April, 1813, to January, 1819, he 
was instructor in infantry tactics, and commandant of cadets at 
West Point. For " ten years' faithful service," he was made 
brevet-major, 13 May, 1823. He was commissioned major of the 
First Regiment of Infantry, 15 July, 1830 ; and commanded his 
regiment in person at the battle of the Bad- Axe. He was pro- 
moted to be a lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth Infantry, 30 Septem- 
ber, 1836 ; and resigned 6 September, 1837. For several years 
subsequent to his resignation, he resided in Buffalo, N.Y. 

1809. — Hon. William Plidier died in Epping, N.H., 
18 September, 1854, aged 65. He was the oldest son of Gov. 
William Plumer, of Epping, where he was born 9 February, 
1789. He studied law with his father, but did not pursue the 
profession. He was repeatedly elected a member of both 
branches of the New-Hampshire legislature, and was also a 
member of the New-Hampshire Constitutional Convention of 
1850. From 1819 to 1825, he was a representative in Con- 
gress ; where, in 1820, he opposed the Missouri (Compromise, 
on the ground that Congress thus superseded its powers, and 
legislated slavery where it did not exist. He commenced his 
public career as a member of the Democratic party : but, in 1828, 
he became a Whig ; and ever after that time he adhered to that 
party. He possessed quite a literary and historical turn of 
mind, and published two small volumes of poems. He collected 
a large library, particularly valuable for the works it contained 
on America and American history. 

1810. — Rufus Bacon died in Taburg, Oneida County, 
N.Y., 6 November, 1854, aged 70. He was born in Ply- 
mouth, Mass., 13 February, 1792. He settled as a lawyer in 
Freetown, Mass. ; and about the year 1827 removed to Taburg, 
where he resided during the remainder of his life. 



1854-55.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 43 

1810. — Stephen Fales died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 Sep- 
tember, 1854, aged 64. He was born in Boston, 3 May, 1790. 
In the autumn of 1810, he was appointed tutor in Latin and 
Greek at Bowdoin College, where he remained two yeai*s. He 
afterwards read law in the office of Jeremiah Mason (Y.C., 
1788), of New Hampshire; was admitted to the bar in Ports- 
mouth; and, in 1819, removed to Cincinnati, where he became 
a partner with Francis Arthur Blake (H.C., 1814), a distin- 
guished lawyer, since deceased. In 1821, he removed to Day- 
ton, Ohio, where he practised law about ten years, when he 
returned to Cincinnati. He was elected to the senate of Ohio 
while he resided in Dayton, and served with great honor to 
himself, and advantage to his constituents. He was a good 
classical scholar ; and, to the latest period of his life, read the 
New Testament in the original Greek, as his constant exercise. 
He often carried that volume in his pocket, and perused it in 
private. He left behind him many pleasant memories, many 
delightful evidences that one lived and died who keenly felt for 
his race, and loved the image of God in his fellow-man. 

1810. — Col. Benjamin Faneuil Hunt died in New- York 
City, 5 December, 1854, aged 62. He was son of William 
Hunt, of Watertown, Mass., where he was born 29 February, 
1792. His mother, a woman of high spirit, the second wife 
of William Hunt, was Jane, daughter of George Bethune, of 
Brighton, whose wife was Mary Faneuil, a descendant of one 
of the Huguenot families, who fled from France at the revoca- 
tion of the Edict of Nantes. Faneuil Hall was named for her 
grandfather's brother. Col. Hunt's father died in 1804. As 
young Hunt manifested aptitude for study, and a determined 
purpose of obtaining a liberal education, his widowed mother 
made provision for meeting the expenses. Immediately after 
he left college, as all his brothers had died of consumption, and 
as his health was very delicate, he adopted the advice of his 
physician to quit the New-England climate, and went to Charles- 
ton, S.C., where he arrived 1 November, 1810. He entered 
as a student the law-office of the late Keating Lewis Simons, 
at that time one of the most distinguished ornaments of the 



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legal profession in Charleston. After two years' study, he 
was admitted to the bar in Charleston, at a period when it was 
crowded with eminent practitioners. Gifted with high intellect- 
ual powers, and a ready and powerful rhetoric, he at once took 
his place in the front rank of the profession; and, as a jury 
lawyer, was perhaps never surpassed at that bar. His prac- 
tice was extensive and successful, and his professional triumphs 
generally, and especially in defence of criminals in capital 
cases, were multiplied and signal. His ability and eloquence 
as an advocate soon gave him prominence in the field of politics, 
and he frequently served in the state legislature as a represen- 
tative from Charleston, and was always regarded as one of the 
ablest and most influential debaters on the floor of the House. 
Although a Northern man, his sympathies were mainly with the 
South. He was chairman of the Committee on Federal Rela- 
tions ; and his reports on the tariff, the tenure of the presi- 
dential office, and the distribution of the sales of public lands, 
have been received as text-books of the state-rights democracy. 
On the declaration of war in 1812, he was active in the organi- 
zation of a military company, which w r as drafted, during the 
war, into the service of the United States. He successively 
rose through the intermediate military grades ; and, about the 
year 1818, was made colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment, in 
which capacity he served about twenty years. About a year 
before his death, he removed from Charleston to the city of New 
York. 

1811. — Robert Hawkins Osgood died in New York, 
27 February, 1855, aged 64. He was son of Capt. John 
Osgood, of Salem, where he was born 14 June, 1790. After 
leaving college, he entered upon the study of the law in his 
native town, but did not pursue the profession. "With his 
brother John, he entered into business as a wholesale clothing 
merchant in Baltimore. Here he was one of the most self- 
sacrificing and active men in founding the society over which 
President Sparks and Dr. Burnap were afterwards settled. 
Subsequently, he and his partner engaged in the wholesale 
clothing business in New York. Having relinquished this occu- 



1854-55.] OP HAEVARD COLLEGE. 45 

pation, he became a partner in the house of Harnden and Co., 
and resided, as European agent for the firm, during a few years, 
in Liverpool, Eng. The last years of his life were spent in 
New York. He was noted for his excellent sense, even temper, 
social accomplishments, and kind heart. 

1812. — Henry Peter Coburn died of cholera in Indiana- 
polis, Ind., 22 July, 1854, aged 64. He was son of Peter and 
Elizabeth (Poor) Coburn, and was born in Dracut, Mass., 
12 March, 1790. The Coburns (originally Colburns) came to 
America at an early period, and were among the first settlers on 
the Merrimack : the family emigrated from Scotland. The Poors 
are also an old family in Dracut. The paternal and maternal 
grandfathers of the subject of this memoir were both in the 
battle o'f Bunker Hill. His father was a farmer, — as had been 
all his ancestors in America, — and he was brought up on a 
farm. At the age of sixteen, he began his preparation for col- 
lege ; telling his parents, brothers, and sisters, that he would 
take, in the form, of an education, his portion of his father's 
estate. He did so, and graduated with distinction. He studied 
law at Ipswich, Mass. ; and, in the year 1815, emigrated to 
the West. During the session of the Constitutional Convention, 
at the organization of the state government of Indiana, in 
June, 1816, he went to Corydon, Ind., then the capital of the 
state. There he located himself, and began the practice of 
the law. He continued to practise until the year 1840. In 
1818, he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court of the 
state, and continued in office till November, 1852. In 1825, 
when the state capital was permanently located at Indianapolis, 
he removed to that place, and there resided during the remainder 
of his life. His name, originally, was Peter Coburn ; but, 
after he removed to the West, he prefixed Henry to his given 
name Peter. As a man, he was quiet, plain, honest, straight- 
forward, and decided. He had no ambition for notoriety, 
public honor, or public favor. He retired from popular tur- 
moils, and shrank from contention. He took little or no part 
in politics, except as a voter, though he was a firm and un- 
wavering Whig. His character as a lawyer was fair ; as a 






46 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1854-55. 

counsellor, he was considered excellent ; as an advocate, he 
never shone. He was called the " honest lawyer." He was a 
member of the Presbyterian Church ; he was an ardent friend 
of education and temperance ; his efforts to promote intelligence 
and to forward literary enterprises were constant, and in some 
degree successful. The Indiana Historical Society, the Indiana 
Law-Library, the Marion-County Library, and the free schools 
of Indianapolis, owe much to his constant efforts ; and were 
partly, for years, under his management. Although he made 
less public display than almost any one, he did more for the 
moral and educational interests of the city of his adoption than 
any man in it. He was truly one of those to whom the Saviour 
promised an open reward for secret good. 

1812. — Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wain weight 'died in 
New- York City, 21 September, 1854, aged 61. He was son of 
Henry Wainwright, and his wife Elizabeth Mayhew, daughter 
of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D.D., of Boston ; and was born in 
Liverpool, Eng. (during the temporary residence of his parents 
there), 24 February, 1793. His father was an English mer- 
chant, who removed to this country shortly after the war, and 
became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Dr. Wain- 
wright's boyhood was spent in England, at school ; and, on the 
return of his parents to this country, he fitted for college at 
Sandwich Academy, under the instruction of Elisha Clap 
(H.C. 1797). After he graduated, he was for two years 
instructor in rhetoric and oratory in Harvard College. In 
1816, he was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and was soon after placed in charge of Christ Church, 
Hartford, where he remained three years. In 1819, he was 
called, as an assistant minister of Trinity Church, New York, 
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of Rev. Dr. Brow- 
nell as Bishop of Connecticut. A few months afterwards, he 
became rector of Grace Church, in New York. Here he re- 
mained until 1834 ; when, upon a very urgent call, he accepted 
the rectorship of Trinity Church, Boston, where he resided three 
years. On the 25th of March, 1837, he returned to New York, 
as an assistant minister, once more, of Trinity Church, and re- 



1854-55.] OF HARVAED COLLEGE. 47 

tained this connection during the remainder of his life. Mean- 
while, however, he had been of distinguished service to the 
church in many other capacities. He succeeded Bishop Henry 
U. Onderdonk as secretary of the Board of Trustees of the 
General Theological Seminary in 1828 ; in which capacity his 
zeal and activity were of great and lasting service until his 
removal to Boston in 1834. He was for many years a manager 
of the Bible, Prayer-book, and Tract Society. He was secre- 
tary of the House of Bishops from the year 1838 until he took 
his seat as a member of that house ; and it was in his capacity 
as secretary that he went to England, in the summer of 1852, 
bearing the resolutions of the American bishops responsive to 
the invitation to attend the closing services of the third semi- 
centennial jubilee of the venerable Society for the Propagation 
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. But the crowning energies of 
his long and laborious life were devoted to the episcopate, to 
which he was elected as provisional bishop by the Diocesan Con- 
vention of 1852, and consecrated on the 10th of November fol- 
lowing. Anxious to serve faithfully that diocese which had called 
him to preside over it, he refused to moderate his episcopal 
labors by any consideration of his own health. Tins enormous 
diocese is too heavy a burden for even the most vigorous man 
in the flower of his age ; and the determination to do what no 
man of his years could reasonably expect to perform hurried 
him to the grave. His last Sunday's duty was at Haverstraw 
(on 27 August), where full and somewhat exciting services were 
held ; he preaching both morning and afternoon to crowded con- 
gregations, with a confirmation of thirteen persons, and an 
appropriate address besides. During his brief episcopate of 
one year, ten months, and eleven days, he went through a 
far greater amount of episcopal labor than was ever before 
crowded into the same space of time by any American bishop. 
He paid for his brilliant pre-eminence with his life. 

1813. — Dr. Zabdiel Botlston Adams died in Boston, 
25 January, 1855, aged 62. He was born in Roxbury, Mass., 
19 February, 1793. He was long known as one of the most 
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greatly endeared to the many families who availed themselves of 
his professional services, as well as to the community at large. 

1815. — Elisiia Fuller died suddenly of disease of the 
heart, in Worcester, 18 March, 1855, aged 60. He was son of 
Rev. Timothy Fuller (H.C. 1760), and was born in Princeton, 
Mass., 28 October, 1794. Immediately after he was graduated, 
he commenced the study of divinity, and completed his studies 
at the Theological School in Cambridge in 1818, when he was 
licensed to preach. For three years, he officiated in various 
pulpits, but finally relinquished the profession, and in July, 
1821, he began the study of law. In May, 1823, he settled 
as a lawyer in Concord, Mass. In May, 1831, he removed 
from Concord to Lowell ; and, in the spring of 1844, from 
Lowell to Worcester, where he remained diligently practising his 
profession till death suddenly called him away. At the time of 
his decease, he held the office of Associate Judge of the Police 
Court in Worcester. His interest in the university, which 
gave to him his education, was large and unintermitted. Its 
history, as it was unfolded, was his study. It was a subject of 
gratulation with him, that, from the period of his matriculation, 
no Commencement-Day had come that did not find him a visitor 
at Cambridge, if it were only for an hour, to manifest, by his 
presence, his interest in his Alma Mater. 

1816. — John Amory Deblois died in Columbus, Ga., 
30 May, 1855, aged 57. He was son of Stephen Deblois, and 
was born in Boston, 20 July, 1797. After leaving college, he 
engao-ed in mercantile business in New Orleans. He afterwards 
removed to Columbus, where he formed a copartnership under 
the firm of Hall and Deblois ; and where, for eighteen years, he 
was one of the most prominent merchants of that place, pos- 
sessing strict integrity, gentle and courteous manners. 

1816. — Rev. William Poole Kendrick died in Bristol, 
Kendall County, 111., 5 November, 1854, aged 64. He was 
born in Hollis, N.H., 27 January, 1790. At the early age 
of eleven years, he became seriously impressed, and resolved, 
by the aid of divine grace, to devote the best of his life 
to the eternal welfare of his fellow-man. In accordance with 



1854-55.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 49 

this resolution, he fitted for college ; and, after graduation, 
studied his profession at the Theological Seminary in Andover. 
He remained some time at the East, ministering to destitute 
churches ; after which, he removed to the state of New York, 
acting as home missionary for nearly thirty years at Shelby, 
Parma Centre, and other places. In 1846, he repaired to 
Illinois, and there ended his days. 

1817. — Frederick Hobbs died in Bangor, Me., 10 Octo- 
ber, 1854, aged 57. He was son of Isaac Hobbs, of Weston, 
Mass., where he was born 28 February, 1797. On his mater- 
nal side, he was a lineal descendant from the celebrated Rev. 
John Cotton, the minister of the First Church in Boston. As 
such a descendant, he was entitled to, and received, certain ben- 
efits from Harvard College, while a student there, growing 
out of bequests to the institution from the Cotton family. Af- 
ter graduating, he read law in the office of Daniel Webster, in 
Boston ; and, in 1820, went to Eastport, Me., where he opened 
an office. He soon entered upon an extensive practice, and 
gained a high position at the bar of Washington County. He 
filled various municipal offices in Eastport, and represented the 
town one year in the legislature. He was once nominated by 
the whig party as their candidate for representative to Con- 
gress in the Eastern Congressional District, and received the 
united vote of that party ; but, as it was then in a minority in 
the district, he failed of an election. In 1836, he removed to 
Bangor, where he successfully continued the practice of the law ; 
having, up to the time of his sickness, more business in the 
United-States Court than any practitioner east of the Kenne- 
bec. Although devoted to his profession, he found time for 
other employments, and always took a lively interest in munici- 
pal affairs ; and, as an alderman, his services in the city 
council were laborious and efficient. He was for some time 
president of the Musical Association in Bangor, and freely lent 
his aid to this branch of education. He was a great friend to 
horticulture ; was among the few who first started the Bangor 
Horticultural Society, and was for some time its president. In 
the cause of schools, lyceums, and temperance, he was an 

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earnest advocate, and contributed his full share for their general 
advancement. He was a good and useful citizen; of stern 
integrity, of strict honesty, and highly exemplary in all his 
habits. In February, L849, while engaged in an important 
case before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in Boston, he 
was suddenly attacked with blindness and dizziness, which for 
some time incapacitated him for labor. Rallying, however, 
from this attack, he continued his business until February, 1K52, 
when he was struck down with severe paralysis as he was finish- 
ing a written argument to be delivered before the United-States 
Court at Washington. He was a Christian. Many years ago, 
he embraced the Unitarian faith ; and, through all his after-life, 
his thoughts and actions appeared to have been regulated from 
conscientious motives. He was sincerely attached to his church, 
and sought in all proper ways to advance the spread of its doc- 
trines. A present of a rich silver communion-service, which 
he made to the church where he worshipped in Bangor, after he 
was taken sick, showed that the effect of his illness tended to 
draw 7 his affections still closer to the best object of his wishes. 

1817. — Caleb Reed died in Boston, 14 October, 1854, 
aged 57. He was son of Rev. John Reed, D.D., of West 
Bridgewater, where he was born 22 April, 171)7. His mother 
was Hannah Sampson. Pie studied law with his brother, Hon. 
John Reed (B.U. 1803), in Yarmouth, Mass. ; with whom he 
continued in practice until 1828. In that year he removed to 
Boston, and entered into business with Cyrus Alger and Co., in a 
foundry which is now known as the South-Boston Iron Company, 
of which he was treasurer. In 1821, he published in 18mo a 
small work entitled " The General Principles of English Gram- 
mar." For more than twenty years of his life, he was editor of 
the " New-Jerusalem Magazine," and a liberal contributor to its 
pages. He was a very efficient member of the Swedenborgian 
Society. 

1818. — Dr. Jesse Chickekixg died at Jamaica Plain, 
West Roxbury, 29 May, 1855, aged 57. lie was born in 
Dover, Mass., 31 August, 17H7. After graduating, he entered 
the Theological School at Cambridge ; completed his studies at 



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that institution in 1821, and preached for several years; but 
was never settled over any society. He then relinquished the 
profession, and commenced the study of medicine. He com- 
pleted his studies and received his medical degree in 1833. He 
practised in Boston for ten years ; but, his studious habits 
not agreeing with the active life of a physician, he retired from 
the service, and devoted himself to statistics, for which he had 
great partiality. His elaborate work on the "Population of 
Massachusetts from 1765 to 1840 " was published in 1846. His 
valuable book on " Immigration into the United States " appeared 
in 1848. His reports on the " Census of Boston " were printed in 
1851. He also contributed many valuable articles to magazines 
and other periodicals. He rendered essential service to the 
Senate committee that arranged the details of the last United- 
States census. He was for several years a confidential cor- 
respondent of Daniel Webster, John Davis, and other leading 
statesmen. A few weeks before his death, he was engaged in 
writing a long communication to the celebrated Marshall Hall, 
of London, who had misunderstood his article in De Bow's 
Eeview for August, 1853. Dr. Hall, in his work on slavery, 
alluded to the article as " an admirable paper ; " but the author 
found his English friend had mistaken his views, and therefore 
prepared an elaborate letter in reply. His last published work 
was a " Letter addressed to the President of the United States 
on Slavery, considered in relation to the Constitutional Principles 
of Government in Great Britain and in the United States." It 
was issued from the press a few weeks before his death, and will 
rank its author among the profound thinkers and writers on the 
slavery-question. He was an intelligent, upright, and conscien- 
tious man. Few persons could be in his society without 
receiving instruction, as his mind was active and his habits 
were communicative. 

1818. — Rev. James DELAr Farnsworth died in Bridge- 
water, 12 November, 1854, aged 61. He was born in Groton, 
Mass., 11 September, 1793; was ordained at Orford, N. H., 
1 January, 1823 ; dismissed 9 April, 1832 ; installed at Paxton, 
Mass., 30 April, 1835; dismissed 1840; installed at North 



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Chelsea; dismissed 1 s r> ; > ; installed at Bridgewater, 1 Septem- 
ber, L853. In 1853, he was chaplain to the Massachusetts 
Senate. 

1819. — Jonx HaklestON Cobbbtt died in Charleston, 
S.C., 11 May, 1855, aged ">(>. He was son of Thomas and 
Elizabeth (Harleston) Corbett, and was born in Charleston, 
10 February, IT!*!). He studied the profession of law; but lost 
his eyesight in 1826, and was blind to the day of his death. 
He enjoyed life, however, very highly ; was fond of society ; and 
kept himself well informed in all the great topics of the day, 
and felt an interest in all its leading movements. He was of a 
gay and elastic temperament. Still his misfortune necessarily 
threw him much into the shade, and he was rarely seen in public 
or general society. 

1819. — Hon. Samuel Baker TValcott, of Salem, died at 
the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, 4 December, 
1854, aged 59. He was born in Bolton, Mass., 7 March, 1795. 
His given name originally was Jesse, which he had changed to 
Samuel Baker by legislative enactment. He received a portion 
of his academic education at Andover. In 1821, he was ap- 
pointed tutor in Greek at Harvard College ; which position 
he occupied about one year, having previously labored with 
much success as a school-teacher in Salem. He subsequently 
studied law in the office of Hon. Daniel Webster, and secured 
the esteem and confidence of his distinguished teacher, which 
never abated during life, and which afterwards placed the pupil 
in the position of guardian and guide of the son of that states- 
man whose whole time and care were claimed by his country. 
After his admission to the bar, he opened an office in Boston, 
but soon removed to Salem. After a brief residence in Salem, 
he removed to Hopkinton, where he pursued his profession with 
success. His public life began in this town ; and no man, who 
frequented the halls of our legislature for more than twelve 
years prior to 1845, can have forgotten the calm and proper 
presence of the member from Hopkinton, the senator from Mid- 
dlesex, or can have failed to mark the attentive hearing he 
always received from whatsoever assembly he addressed. No 



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representive, no senator, ever served his town and county better 
than he, during many years of public life. His scholarship was 
excellent, his manners unostentatious ; his conduct, in whatever 
he undertook, prudent and discreet ; in public, a reliable man ; 
in private, dignified, exemplary, and conscientiously kind and 
attentive. 

1819. — Benjamin Wheatland died in Salem, 28 Decem- 
ber, 1854, aged 53. He was son of Capt. Richard Wheatland, 
of Salem, where he was born 27 May, 1801. After graduating, 
he studied law, but did not pursue the profession. He engaged 
in the service of the New Market (N.H.) Manufacturing Com- 
pany at the commencement of its career, and continued with it 
to the time of his death ; a faithful, intelligent, upright, and 
honorable agent in the various stations he filled. 

1822. — Luther Barker Lincoln died in Deerfield, Mass., 
11 May, 1855, aged 53. He was son of Luther Lincoln, of 
Westford, Mass., where he was born 3 April, 1802. At an 
early age, he lost his mother ; and, from that time, he knew little 
of a home till he formed one for himself. His father, who was 
a sea-captain, was absent most of the time, and he was kept at 
school. At one time, his father possessed considerable property, 
but lost it during the youth of his son ; who was thus left, at an 
early age, to struggle hard for means to complete the course of 
study on which he had entered. He w T as fitted for college at 
Westford Academy. In college he took a respectable rank as 
a scholar, and was faithful and conscientious in the performance 
of every exercise. On leaving college, he went to Sandwich, 
and had charge of the academy in that place for several years. 
From Sandwich he removed to Hingham, and was associated 
with Dr. Willard in a private school in that place. In 1835, 
he became the principal of the academy in Deerfield ; which 
office he filled with much acceptance till 1844, when he resigned 
his situation there, and accepted one in the Derby Academy 
at Hingham, where he remained till 1848, when he returned 
to Deerfield. The last seven years of his life were devoted to 
teaching, for the most part in a private school ; a part of the 
time in Deerfield, and a part of the time in Greenfield. His 



54 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [18j4-5o. 

last situation in this capacity was in the Greenfield High School. 
The last four months previous to his death were spent in ardu- 
ous labors as representative in the legislature, to which office 
lie was chosen with a unanimity rarely witnessed in these days. 
It will thus be seen that teaching was the chosen occupation to 
which he devoted more than thirty years of his life. It was an 
occupation which he loved, and to which he gave himself with 
all the ardor of his soul. lie had a rare taste for his work : 
he commanded the respect of the young to a degree seldom 
equalled. It may be truly said of him, that he led a pure and 
blameless life. 

1823. — Thomas Wilson Doer died in Providence, R.I., 
27 December, 1854, aged 49. He was son of Sullivan and 
Lydia (Allen) Dorr, and was born in Providence, 5 Novem- 
ber, 1805. He commenced his education at the free school and 
the Latin Grammar School in Providence ; and completed his 
studies, preparatory to entering college, at Phillips Academy, in 
Exeter, N.H. He graduated as the second scholar of his class. 
He attended the law lectures, and was under the instruction of 
Chancellor Kent in New York in 1824-25 ; and after passing 
some time in the office of John Whipple, in Providence, was 
admitted to the bar in 1827. He did not pursue the practice 
of his profession, but early turned his attention to political life, 
and the more congenial studies of scholastic lore. He devoted 
much attention to matters of public utility and general improve- 
ment. He was a trustee and treasurer of the Providence His- 
torical Society at the time of the troubles in 1842. He gave 
long and zealous attention to the subject of education in the 
free schools ; was president of the committee in 1842 ; intro- 
duced, and carried through the committee, the plan of a high 
school, which was finally adopted by the city government, and 
resulted in the present improved system of education. 

He commenced political life in 1834. Early in that year, he 
.attended the Freeholders' Convention, designed to bring about 
an extension of suffrage, and establish a republican constitu- 
tion. In April of the same year, he was elected representative 
from the city of Providence ; and was re-elected semi-annually 



1854-55.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 55 

till August, 1837. In June, 1836, he drew up a report of the 
investigation of the banks, and a draft of the Bank Act, which 
was adopted. In 1839, he was nominated as a candidate un- 
representative to Congress, but was defeated. While a member 
of the Assembly, he exerted himself to obtain an extension of 
suffrage ; he also attempted to procure the call of a convention, 
without success. He took an active interest in the movement 
which was organized in 1840 for obtaining a written constitu- 
tion, securing an extension of suffrage, &c. ; and was a promi- 
nent member of the convention resulting from this movement, 
holden in 1841, and which framed and submitted to the people 
a constitution, the original draft of which is in his hand- 
writing. 

He was tried upon the charge of treason at the term of the 
Supreme Court at Newport, in June, 1844 ; was convicted, and 
sentenced on the 25th of June to imprisonment for " life at hard 
labor in separate confinement." At the May term of the 
General Assembly holden in 1845, an act was passed, providing 
for his liberation on conditions which he refused. At the June 
session following, he was unconditionally liberated, without being 
restored to the rights of citizenship. The time of his continu- 
ance in prison was just one year. He was elected a delegate 
to the Baltimore National Democratic Conventions in 1848 and 
1852, but was unable to attend either of them. The General 
Assembly, at their June session in 1851, restored him to all the 
rights and privileges of citizenship, without condition. At 
the January session in 1853, an act was passed annulling the 
sentence passed upon him by the Supreme Court. During his 
last illness, he connected himself with the Episcopal Church. 
The Democratic State Convention, holden in March last, voted 
to erect a monument to his memoiy, and appointed a commit- 
tee to carry the same into effect. 

1826. — Dr. George Franklin Turner died at Corpus 
Christi, Texas, 17 October, 1854, aged 47. He was son of 
Robert Turner, and was born in Boston, 22 April, 1807. After 
leaving college, he studied medicine in the army hospital with 
the late Dr. B. Turner, with a view of entering the army. His 



5G NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1854-65. 

commission as assistant-surgeon was dated 23 July, 1833 ; 
previous to which time, he had practised medicine for a short 
period in Indiana. His commission of surgeon was of date 
1 January, 1840. lie was stationed at Mackinaw in 1834 ; 
when he married Mary, the eldest daughter of the late Robert 
Stuart, Esq., of Detroit, Mich. He afterwards served in Florida 
during the Seminole War ; and was subsequently stationed at 
Fort Snelling, at the Falls of St. Anthony, on the Mississippi, 
until the Mexican War, when he was ordered to Mexico, where 
he served as medical surveyor. Afterwards, in California and 
Texas, he continued to render the services of his profession, 
which, from the time of his entering the service until the end of 
his life, were uninterrupted, and often as arduous as they were 
faithful and able. 

1827. — Marshall Tufts died in Lexington, Mass., 
18 May, 1855, aged 52. He was son of Thomas and Rebecca 
(Adams) Tufts, and was born in Lexington, Mass., 26 Sep- 
tember, 1802. In the winter of 182(3, he taught a school in 
Woburn, Mass. After graduating, he entered as a student 
in the Theological School at Cambridge, but left after a short 
period. In 1828, he commenced his theological studies with 
the Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D. (Y.C. 1783), of Cambridge. 
After completing his studies, he preached for some years, but 
was never ordained. 

1828. — Dr. John Appleton Swett died in New-York 
City, 18 September, 1854, aged 45. He was son of John and 
Alice (Appleton) Swett, and was born in Boston, 3 December, 
1808. He commenced practice as a physician, in Boston ; but 
a few years afterwards removed to the city of New York, where 
he resided till his death. He was one of the brightest lights of 
the profession in that city. For many years, he was recognized 
as an authority of the first standing, especially upon diseases of 
the chest ; on which subject a volume of his, published a year 
or two since, has become a valuable text-book. His private 
practice was extensive : but he was much more largely known 
through his connection with the New-York City Hospital ; to fill 
one of the most responsible offices in which, he was elected 



1854-55.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 57 

in the year 1842. His minute pathological examinations, and 
their comparison with the diseases illustrated thereby in the living, 
made him one of the most instructive lecturers that walked the 
wards of that famous charity ; and his clinical classes were 
always large. He held too, at his death, an important profess- 
orship in the medical department of the University (the Four- 
teenth-street School). In that institution, he lectured with 
great success on the Institutes and Practice of Medicine. 

1829. — Elbridge Gerry Austin died at Nahant, 25 July, 
1854, aged 43. He was son of Hon. James T. Austin (H.C. 
1802), and was born in Boston, 4 October, 1810. He studied 
law, and opened an office in Boston, where he practised several 
years. About four years before his death, he removed to San 
Francisco ; where he opened an office, and soon obtained an ex- 
tensive practice. A few weeks before his decease, he came to 
Boston on a visit to his relatives ; and, on his passage across the 
Isthmus, contracted the seeds of disease which terminated his life. 

1831. — Caleb Fletchi ; Abbott died in Toledo, Ohio, 
24 April, 1855. He was son of Caleb and Mercy (Fletcher) 
Abbott, and was born in Chelmsford, 8 September, 1811. He 
studied law at Lowell and at the Law School in Cambridge ; 
and, in 1836, removed to Toledo, where he attained a high rank 
in his profession, and held many important offices. He was 
formerly mayor of the city, and prosecuting-attorney for that 
judicial district. He was a ripe scholar, possessed of fine literary 
and scientific acquirements. As a speaker, he had but few 
equals as a logical and eloquent debater, and held a front rank 
among the members of the bar. He was a warm friend, and 
possessed elements of character which entitled him to the admi- 
ration and respect of his fellow-citizens. 

1831. — Francis Lowell Dutton died in Brookline, 
Mass., 15 December, 1854, aged 42. He was son of Hon. 
Warren Dutton (Y.C. 1797) and Elizabeth Cabot Lowell, and 
was born in Boston, 21 June, 1812. He studied law in Boston, 
but did not long pursue the profession. 

1832. — William O'Hara Robinson died in Pittsburg, 
Pa., 6 February, 1855, aged 41. He was second son of Gen. 






58 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1854-55. 

William Robinson, and was born in Alleghany, Pa., 7 October, 
1813. He was a lawyer in Pittsburg. 

1833. — Dr. Charles Henry Peirce died in Cambridge, 
Mass., 16 June, 1855, aged 41. He was son of Benjamin 
Peirce, of Salem, Mass. (II.C. 1801), where lie was born 
28 January, 1814. He studied medicine, and established him- 
self as a physician in Salem ; but subsequently removed to 
Cambridge. For a few years, he held the office of special 
examiner of drugs in the Boston custom-house. 

1834. — Kev. George Henry Hastings died in Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn., 2 September, 1854. He was the oldest son of 
Joseph Stacy Hastings, and was born in Boston, 17 June, 1814. 
He was for several years chaplain in the American legation 
at Rome, Italy ; and held the place until he was compelled to 
relinquish it in consequence of the rapid progress of pulmonary 
disease. During his residence at Rome, he was a regular cor- 
respondent of the "New -York Commercial Advertiser;" and 
continued to write for it after his return, and during his travels 
through the Southern States. 

1834. — Dr. Samuel Parkman died in Boston, 15 December, 
1854, aged 38. He was son of Samuel Parkman (H.C. 1810), 
and was born in Boston, 21 June, 1816. He studied medicine 
and established himself as a physician in Boston, where he 
rapidly gained an extensive practice ; and bade fair to take the 
highest rank among the numerous members of the profession 
in the city, when he was suddenly cut off in the prime of life. 
A few days before his death, he had been elected a member of 
the School Committee. 

1836. — Frederick William Gale, of Worcester, Mass., 
was lost at sea in the steamship " Arctic " on his passage from 
Liverpool for New York, 27 September, 1854. The "Arctic" 
left Liverpool 20 September ; and on the 27th, oft 1 Newfound- 
land, was run into by another steamer, and sunk. He was born 
in Northborough, Mass., 22 June, 1815. He was a practising 
lawyer in Worcester. 

1838. — Charles Henry Hartshorn died in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, 2 May, 1855, aged 35. He was son of Caleb Hartshorn ; 



1854-55.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 59 

and was born in Boston, 4 December, 1819. He studied no 
profession, but was employed as a clerk in various mercantile 
houses in New York, Boston, New Orleans, and Cincinnati. 

1842. — William Grinnell Cross died in New Bed- 
ford, Mass., 29 October, 1854, aged 37. He was son of 
Capt. Latham and Deborah (Snell) Cross, and was born in 
New Bedford, 6 November, 1816. His father was born in 
Fairhaven, 5 November, 17T4. His mother was born 4 Jan- 
uary, 1779 ; and died 15 July, 1853, aged 74. In 1789, 
his father learned the trade of a hatter in New Bedford, which 
he pursued until 1795, when he abandoned it, and went a 
whaling voyage on the coast of Brazil. He soon became master 
of a vessel, first of a coaster, which he built in 1802, and ran to 
New York ; but subsequently was commander of a merchant- 
ship, and went to Liverpool ; at which port he was at the time 
of the declaration of war in 1812. After peace, he resumed the 
whaling business, which he continued with success until 1828, 
when he retired with an ample competence. 

The subject of this notice, at the age of nine years, was 
attacked with a severe affection of the right thigh-bone, which 
confined him to the house until nearly seventeen years of age ; 
and resulted in exfoliation and shortening of the bone, and 
rendered him a cripple for life. He then entered the High 
School in New Bedford, which he attended about a year ; when 
he entered the counting-room of William T. Russell, afterwards 
collector of New Bedford, where he continued two years. He 
then determined to obtain a collegiate education, and pursued his 
preparatory studies under the instruction of Dr. Julius Stewart 
May hew, of New Bedford. After leaving college, he studied 
law under the instruction of Hon. Thomas Dawes Eliot ; when, 
on being admitted to the bar, he opened an office in New Bed- 
ford, but abandoned the profession within a year. He married 
(1st), in January, 1846, Rebecca C. Wady, daughter of Hum- 
phrey Wady. She died without issue, 20 February, 1847, in 
her 24th year; and he married (2d), 19 January, 1851, Ruth 
Almy Weaver, daughter of John Weaver, and had two children 
(daughters), the elder of whom survives him. His second wife 



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I 

died 13 May, 1857, at the age of 31. Mr. Cross pursued no 
business after relinquishing his profession, as his health continued 
feeble. The later years of his life were cheered, amid so much 
affliction, by devotion to choice literature and by the kind offices 
of numerous friends. His integrity of character was unim- 
peached, and his society was sought by his religious associates. 
1843. — Eliphalet Birchard died in Lebanon, Conn., 

20 September, 1854, aged 39. lie was born in Lebanon, 

21 January, 1815. After graduation, he entered the Theological 
Seminary in Andover, and completed his studies there in 1846. 
Though invited by several churches to settle as pastor, he was 
prevented by imperfect health from accepting any of these invita- 
tions ; but he was a faithful and acceptable preacher, and will 
long be remembered with gratitude by many who were richly 
blessed by his labors. 

1846. — Willloi Thaddeus Harris died in Cambridge, 
Mass., 19 October, 1854, aged 28. He was son of Dr. Thad- 
deus William Hams (H.C. 1815), and was born in Milton, 
Mass., 26 January, 1826. He removed with his father's family 
to Cambridge when five years old. He began to fit for college in 
September, 1840, at the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, 
then first established by Mr. John B. Henck (H.C. 1840) ; 
and completed his preparatory studies under Mr. Edmund B. 
Whitman (H.C. 1838). A physical infirmity, a congenital 
weakness of the spine, followed by its permanent curvature, 
debarred him from the usual pleasures of those of his own age ; 
and he was obliged to have recourse to books, which, in process 
of time, became his meat and drink, his only solace, his only 
amusement. While in college, in his junior year, he printed 
a collection of " Epitaphs from the Old Burying-ground in 
Cambridge." This collection was made mostly during his boy- 
hood, while attending the town-school. He finished it, and 
added the notes, while in college ; and the book was published 
in May, 1845, Immediately after graduation, he entered the 
Law School at Cambridge ; and was admitted to the bar on 
the 1st of December, 1853. His acquaintance with early New- 
England history was thorough and extensive. He projected 



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several historical performances, which, had he lived, would have 
been of great value : one was a " Continuation of Prince's Chro- 
nology." To what extent he went with it, is not known ; but 
what he did was so well clone, that Mr. Prince, it is believed, 
could not have wished it better done had he been here with all 
his former ability to appreciate such a work. 

1846. — Nathaniel Oilman Perry died at sea, on board 
ship "William Tell," on the passage from Havre to New York, 
2 June, 1855, aged 28. He was son of Dr. William Perry 
(H.C. 1811), of Exeter, N.H. ; where he was born 28 Octo- 
ber, 1826. He inherited a feeble constitution ; and, at the 
age of seven, lost one of his eyes by an arrow in the hands of 
another boy. He was fitted for college in Phillips Exeter 
Academy, and entered the freshman class in August, 1842. He 
was taken with raising blood while in college, which recurred 
frequently, on exertion of the arms, for three or four years. On 
leaving college in 1846, he commenced reading law with Gil- 
man Marston, Esq., of Exeter; and entered the Law School 
in Cambridge in 1847, where he remained a year. In the 
spring of 1849, he accompanied Capt. John C. Long, as his 
clerk, in the United-States steam-frigate "Mississippi," to the 
Mediterranean. He returned home in November, 1851, and' 
was admitted to the Rockingham bar. In March, 1852, he was 
chosen to represent the town of Exeter in the legislature, and 
again in 1853. His health now became so feeble, that he was 
unable to engage fully in the labors of his profession ; and, 
thinking himself benefited by being at sea, he was reluctantly 
induced, in the following October, to accept Capt. Long's invi- 
tation to go a^ain w ith him to the Mediterranean, in the United- 
States steamer " Saranac." For a time, his health seemed to 
improve ; but, in the autumn of 1854, he became so unwell 
as to find it expedient to leave the ship for a time, and remain 
in Nice. The latter part of the winter, and the first of the 
spring, he spent in Florence. In April, he visited Tunis and 
Naples ; but became so feeble, that he was compelled to leave 
for home under the care of a benevolent gentleman and his 
wife, who volunteered the responsible and arduous undertaking. 



62 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI L1854-55. 

They left Leghorn the 3d of May, and went to Paris by way 
of Marseilles. Here lie joined a brother, who had previously 
been with him in Florence, and now, finding him so ill, 
prepared to accompany him home. They sailed from Havre 
the 24th of May ; and, on the 2d of June, he died in the arms 
of his brother, a firm believer in the mercy of God through 
the merits of his Son. 

1850. — Oscar Fitzalan Parker died in St. Louis, Mo., 
5 August, 1854, aged 26. He was son of Peter Parker, and 
and was born in Schroeppel, Oswego County, N.Y., 19 Febru- 
ary, 1828. He was a young man of pure life, sterling integrity, 
and marked abilities. He was a member of the legal profes- 
sion, and had recently established himself in St. Louis, with the 
intention of making that his place of residence. A meeting of 
the St. Louis bar was held on the day of his death, at which 
resolutions were passed in warm eulogy of the deceased, who, 
though but recently attached to that bar, had already made 
himself beloved and respected by his associates. 

1851. — William Coombs Wheelwright was lost at sea, 
9 September, 1854, aged 25. He was son of Ebenezer and 
Sarah (Boddily) Wheelwright, and was born in Portsmouth, 
N.H., 13 December, 1829. His grandparents, on his father's 
side, were Ebenezer Wheelwright (born in Gloucester), and 
Anne (born at Newburyport) , daughter of William Coombs. 
On his maternal line, his grandfather, John Boddily, was born 
in England, probably in 1760. His grandmother, Sarah 
(Tuckmell) Boddily, was born in Bristol, Eng., or, at least, 
came from that place. When the subject of this notice was 
four years old, he moved with his father's family to Boston, 
where, and at Roxbury and at Salem, he lived till he entered 
college in 1847. His childhood was marked with fearlessness 
and self-reliance, fondness for the sea, a taste for the mechanic 
arts, correct deportment, and benevolence. From a defect in 
his vision, he was never able clearly to discern objects about 
him ; and consequently, being quite liable to accidents, he re- 
ceived several slight injuries. Although his inclination for a 
liberal education was not strong, he began to fit for college, in 



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1841, at the Boston Latin School; where, with the exception 
of ten months at the Salem Latin School, he continued till the 
last two years before entering college, when he was at the Rox- 
biuy Latin School. During the first year of his college-course, 
he was parietal freshman ; and, in his second year, monitor at 
the lectures and declamations. In the junior year, he was 
absent nearly two months, and seriously threatened with con- 
sumption. While an undergraduate, his love of adventure was 
strengthened by his reading ; which, besides poetry, — to which 
he was much attached, — consisted principally of travels and voy- 
ages, particularly of the narrations of various arctic exploring 
expeditions. The state of his eyesight, however, interfered with 
his literary pursuits. His strong memory, enabling him to 
repeat long poems, — particularly of Walter Scott, — and his 
activity in the college playgrounds, relieved many an hour 
which otherwise might have been unemployed. After gradu- 
ating, he was engaged for a short time in teaching at Raynham : 
but the trouble in his eyesight continuing, and his passion for a 
sea-life increasing, he went on board one of his father's vessels, as 
a common sailor, to the West Indies ; and he was so much pleased 
and benefited, that he abandoned all thoughts of studying a pro- 
fession. After another voyage to the West Indies, he went to 
the Sandwich Islands. While there, he was deeply impressed 
with the importance of personal religion, occasioned by the 
sabbath worship of the islanders. He had never witnessed 
the gospel in New England as he saw it manifested in the con- 
duct of these converted heathen. He described their religious 
worship as more impressive than could be imagined ; being 
marked by a degree of solemnity, sincerity, and reverence, 
such as he had never seen. Subsequently, he went on a voyage 
to Havre, in France, where he attended the Bethel worship ; 
and on his return to New York, and thence home, it was 
manifest that an important change had taken place in his 
character. His mind was solemn and thoughtful. His evening 
hours were spent in solitude, reading the Scriptures, and prayer. 
He became much concerned for the welfare of seamen, col- 
lected money for tracts, and employed his efforts in various 



64 NECROLOGY OF ALUMXI [1854-55. 

ways for their good; and, in his conversation with his friends, 
it was evident that he was deeply concerned to fulfil the duties 
of life, and always to be prepared for death. His eyesight 
continuing to improve, he took the post of first officer on 
hoard the brig "Horace Greeley," of Philadelphia. He made a 
voyage to Cuba and back; thence proceeded to Charleston, S.C. ; 
and thence to Georgetown, in the same State. The brig was 
there loaded for Philadelphia ; and, sailing on the 5th of Septem- 
ber, encountered a hurricane on the eighth and ninth of the same 
month, in which the brig, on the last day named, was upset, 
and all on board perished. Two other vessels sailed the same 
day from Georgetown, bound north ; and both vessels, with all 
their crews, were lost. 

He cherished a love for literature ; and, in all his voyages, he 
made some of his old Latin classics his companions. The rough 
men among whom he was thrown felt the refining influences of 
his education, and at once and cheerfully acknowledged his 
superiority. His benevolence and sympathy created bonds of 
strong attachment between him and his friends. He had no 
sunshine of his own which did not gladden the hearts of others, 
and he counted no blessing he possessed complete till it was 
largely shared by his friends and others. He loved much, and 
was greatly beloved, and left a void in the hearts of his parents 
and in the circle of his friends which can never be filled. He 
kept a journal, on the title-page of which was the following 
memorandum : " Should God in his providence see fit to take 
my life during this voyage, I wish this book to be kept strictly 
private, and sent to my friends in Newburyport, Mass." 

1854. — Henry Cobb, of Barnstable, died suddenly, of in- 
flammation of the bowels, at Tazewell, Tenn., 5 January, 1855, 
aged 21 years and 11 months. He was son of Enoch T. and 
Abiah Cobb, and was born in Barnstable, Mass., 5 February, 
1833. He had studied and qualified himself for civil engineer- 
ing ; and, seeking a more southern climate for the benefit of his ' 
precarious health, he joined an engineer corps in Tennessee, in 
November, 1854, and was actively engaged with them in sur- 
veying for and locating a railroad through that state, when, 



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after about a week's confinement, he died. He was remarkable 
for his studious and correct habits ; and though compelled by a 
pulmonary attack to leave college, and, by the advice of physi- 
cians, to travel in Europe, passing several months of his junior 
year in Italy, he kept his place in his class, and graduated with 
the usual honors. 

1854. — Nicholas Gilman died in Exeter, N.H., 31 Octo- 
ber, 1854, aged 20. He was son of Capt. Nathaniel Gilman, 
and was born in Exeter, 8 May, 1834 ; was fitted for college 
at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and entered the sophomore class 
in 1851. He was distinguished for his scholarship, courtesy 
of manners, singular sweetness of disposition, and correct 
morals. 



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1782. — Hon. John Welles died in Boston, 25 September, 
1855, aged 90. He was son of Arnold Welles (H.C. 1745), 
and was born in Boston, 14 October, 1764; was fitted for col- 
lege by Rev. Daniel Shute, D.D., of Hingham (H.C. 1743), 
where he had among his fellow-students Capt. James Sever, of 
Kingston, Mass. (H.C. 1781), and Col. Thomas H. Perkins, 
of Boston. He was the youngest in his class ; having graduated 
before he had completed his eighteenth year. Soon after leav- 
ing college, he entered into mercantile business with his father. 
About the year 1802, he formed a copartnership with his cousin 
Samuel Welles (H.C. 1796), under the firm of John and 
Samuel Welles. This partnership was dissolved in 1815 ; 
and his partner proceeded to Paris, where he became connected 
with the celebrated banking-house of Welles and Co.' Mr. Welles 
soon afterwards took into partnership his kinsman, Benjamin 
Welles of Boston, under the style of John and Benjamin Welles. 
Tins firm continued until a recent period, when the infirmities of 
age compelled the senior partner to retire, having accumulated 
an ample fortune. He was one of the few survivors who were 
claimants for French spoliations prior to 1800. He was several 
times elected a representative, and also a senator, in our state 
legislature. He was a member of the executive council 
under the administration of Gov. Strong. When the city 
charter was granted in 1822, he was elected a member of the 
first common council ; and, the following year, was re-elected, 
when he was chosen president of that branch of the city govern- 
ment. He was one of the earliest promoters of agricultural 
societies ; was for several years an active member of the Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural Society ; and was associated with the late 
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a valuable farm in Natick, Mass., oh which, for many years, he 
passed the summer season, devoting himself to agricultural pur- 
suits. This farm has been in possession of the Welles family 
ever since the days of the old Apostle Eliot, the translator of 
the Bible into the Indian language. In politics, Mr. Welles 
was ever a firm and consistent federalist of the Washington 
school. In all his business transactions, he was characterized as 
a merchant of strict integrity and upright conduct. In the last 
two triennial catalogues of the college which were issued before 
his death, his name stood as the senior surviving alumnus. He 
outlived all his classmates many years. 

1783. — Asa Andrews died in Ipswich, Mass., 13 Janu- 
ary, 1856, aged 93. He was son of Robert Andrews, and 
was born in that part of Shrewsbury which is now within the 
limits of Boylston, 11 May, 1762. His father was a native of 
Boxford. His mother — who was a Bradstreet, a native of 
Topsfield — was a descendant of Gov. Simon Bradstreet. Since 
the death of the Hon. John Welles, Mr. Andrews has been the 
oldest surviving graduate of Harvard; and, at the time of his 
death, was the oldest man in Ipswich. He studied law with 
Hon. Caleb Strong, of Northampton (H.C. 1764). After com- 
pleting his legal studies, he opened an office in Ipswich, where he 
resided during the remainder of his long life. In 1794, he was 
appointed, by Washington, collector of the port and district of 
Ipswich; which office he held until 1829, when he was removed 
by Jackson. At the time of his removal, a balance was claimed 
as due from him to the government ; but on a trial before Judge 
Story, in the Circuit Court at Boston, the jury found that there 
was due to him from the government about two thousand dollars. 
This was not paid him until about a year before his death ; when, 
by an appropriation made by Congress, he received the balance 
which had been due to him more than a quarter of a century. 
He was a man of distinguished ability. He filled many offices 
of honor and trust, and enjoyed the entire confidence of his fel- 
low-citizens. 

1785. — Rev. Thaddeus Fiske died in Charlestown, Mass., 
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Abigail Fiske; was born in Weston, Mass., 22 June, 1762; 
and was, at the time of his death, the oldest clergyman in Mas- 
sachusetts. He was ordained pastor of the church in West 
Cambridge, 23 April, 1788 ; and resigned his pastoral charge, 
23 April, 1<S28, on the completion of the fortieth year of his 
ministry. It is remarkable that he lived to see five clergymen 
successively ordained over the society where he had faithfully 
labored for forty years, three of whom passed off the stage be- 
fore him : viz., Rev. David Damon, who died 25 June, 1843, 
aged 55 ; Rev. William Ware, who died 19 February, 1852, 
aged 54 ; and Rev. James Francis Brown, who died 13 June, 
1853, aged 32. In the year 1821, the degree of D.D. was 
conferred upon Dr. Fiske by Columbia College, New York. A 
few months before his death, he removed from West Cambridge 
to Charlestown to reside with a relative in the latter place, 
where he passed the few remaining days of his life. 

1787. — Hon. William Cranch died in Washington, D.C., 
1 September, 1855, aged 86. He was son of Richard and 
Mary (Smith) Cranch, and was born in Weymouth, Mass., 17 
July, 1769. ' His mother was sister of the wife of President 
John Adams. He was prepared for college under the instruc- 
tion of Rev. John Shaw, of Haverhill (H.C. 1772) ; and en- 
tered the freshman class, six months in advance, in February, 
1784. He studied law with Hon. Thomas Dawes, of Boston 
(H.C. 1777) ; and in July, 1790, was admitted to practice in 
the Court of Common Pleas in this State. He opened an office 
in Braintree, near Quincy ; but, one year afterwards, removed 
to Haverhill. For three years he attended the courts in Es- 
sex County, Mass., and Rockingham County, N.H. ; and was 
admitted to practice in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial 
Court in July, 1793. In September, 1794, he was employed 
as the land-agent of the firm of Morris, Nicholson, and Green- 
leaf, in the city of Washington ; to which place he removed 
in October of that year, and there resided during the remainder 
of his life. In April, 1795, he was married to Nancy Greenleaf, 
daughter of Hon. William Greenleaf, with whom he lived 
nearly fifty years; she having died in Washington, 16 Sep« 






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tember, 1843. In 1800, he was appointed one of the com- 
missioners of the city of Washington, which office he resigned 
in 1801 ; Avhen he was appointed, by President Adams, junior 
assistant-judge of the United-States Circuit Court of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, under the act of Congress of 27 February, 
1801 : the late Gov. Thomas Johnson, of Maryland, having 
been appointed chief judge ; and Mr. James Marshall, brother 
of the late Chief Justice Marshall, having been appointed elder 
assistant-judge. Mr. Adams consented to give this appoint- 
ment to his nephew, only upon the earnest personal appeal of 
Chief-Justice Marshall, after a public petition to the same end; 
as he was apprehensive, that, in the dispensation of office, the 
public might charge upon him that system of nepotism which 
has since become so common at the seat of government ; and 
hence his reluctance to elevate one whom he loved next to his 
own son. Gov. Johnson refused to accept the office ; and 
President Jefferson appointed William Kitty, Esq., chief 
judge. Mr. Marshall resigned in 1803 ; and Nicholas Fitzhugh, 
Esq., of Virginia, was appointed in his place. In 1805, Mr. 
Kitty having been appointed chancellor of Maryland, Judge 
Cranch was appointed by President Jefferson to the office of 
chief-justice ; and, by virtue of that office, he was sole judge of 
the District Court of the United States for the District of Co- 
lumbia, which has the same jurisdiction as the other district 
courts of the United States. He published nine volumes of 
cases in the Supreme Court of the United States ; a memoir of 
the life, character, and writings of President John Adams, read 
before the Columbian Institute, 16 March, 1837; and an address 
upon the subject of temperance in 1831, a small pamphlet. He 
was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
and of the American Antiquarian Society. In 1829, he re- 
ceived the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard 
College. For fifty years and more, he was looked up to in 
Washington, Alexandria, Georgetown, and in the neighborhood, 
as the chief citizen of the district. By his kindness and benevo- 
lence to the poor, by his uniform courtesy to all men, by his 
life-long industry and patience in labor, by his love of letters, 



70 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1855-56. 

by his fidelity to every private and public trust reposed in him, 
he won a love and respect which were felt by every man, and 
even every child, who knew him. His life, too, was eminently 
a religious one ; and as he lived, so he died, in the fullest hope 
of a blessed immortality. 

1787. — Dr. Walter Htjnnewell died in Watertown, 
Mass., 19 October, 1855, aged 86. He was born in Cam- 
bridge, 10 August, 1769 ; studied medicine with Dr. Marshall 
Spring, of Watertown (II.C. 1762) ; and settled in Watertown, 
where he passed the whole of his professional life, and was 
highly respected as a good citizen and a skilful physician. 

1793. — Hon. Charles Jackson died in Boston, 13 Decem- 
ber, 1855, aged 80. He was the eldest son of Hon. Jonathan 
Jackson, of Newburyport (H.C. 1761), — one of the most 
prominent men of this state during the revolutionary era ; being 
a member of the Continental Congress in 1780 ; marshal of the 
district of Massachusetts, under Washington ; treasurer of the 
commonwealth for five years, and of Harvard College at 
the time of his death ; — and grandson of Edward Jackson (H.C. 
1726), a distinguished merchant of Boston. He was born in 
Newburyport, 31 May, 1775 ; was fitted for college under the 
instruction of Nicholas Pike, of Newburyport (H.C. 1766), 
and at Dummer Academy. He graduated with the highest 
honors of his class. He pursued the study of law in Newbury- 
port, under the instruction of Hon. Theophilus Parsons (H.C. 
1769) j was admitted to practice in the county of Essex in 1796 ; 
immediately entered upon the practice of his profession in his 
native town, and rose rapidly to eminence. In 1803, he re- 
moved to Boston, and soon attained the highest rank at the 
bar, where James Sullivan, John Lowell, Christopher Gore, 
Rufus Amory, Harrison Gray Otis, Samuel Dexter, William 
Sullivan, and other distinguished men, were his associates and 
competitors ; and, in partnership with Hon. Samuel Hubbard, 
(Y.C. 1802), acquired probably the most lucrative practice ever 
before known in Massachusetts. In 1813, he was appointed by 
Gov. Strong to the office of judge of the Supreme Court, to 
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. Theodore 



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Sedgwick (Y.C. 17 65) ; which appointment, he, after much 
hesitation, accepted, impelled by a high sense of duty, and by 
the urgency of the chief-justice and his other professional friends 
of his peculiar fitness for that high station. He discharged its 
duties with eminent fidelity until the year 1823 ; when he was 
compelled by declining health to resign his seat, to the universal 
regret of the bar and the people of the state. Immediately on 
his retirement, for the purposes of relaxation and recovery, he 
went to Europe ; and, while in England, received great attention 
from the jurists and statesmen of the times. In 1820, he was 
a very influential member of the convention for revising the 
constitution of the state. In 1832, Gov. Lincoln, acting 
under a resolve of the legislature, appointed three commission- 
ers to revise the General Statutes of the commonwealth ; and 
Judge Jackson was placed at the head of this important trust. 
His associates were Hon. Asahel Stearns (H.C. 1797), and 
John Hooker Ashmun (H.C. 1818). Mr. Ashmun died soon 
afterwards, and Hon. John Pickering (H.C. 1796) was appointed 
in his place. Before his elevation to the bench of the Supreme 
Court, he was elected, in 1808, in 1809, and in 1812, a repre- , 
sentative to the General Court. After his resignation, he was 
selected for the performance of various important trusts ; among 
which was that of a member of the corporation of Harvard Col- 
lege, which he filled from 1825 to 1834. In politics, he clung 
with the ardor and tenacity of settled principle to the ancient 
faith of the old Essex platform, of which his master, Parsons, 
so admirably sketched the outlines in his famous "Resolutions," 
and from which so many of the noblest men, whom this country 
has ever counted among its jewels, have so often uttered the 
words of warning and wisdom and encouragement and patriot- 
ism, in the roughest times the country has ever seen. In 
religion, he was a Christian believer in faith and practice, with- 
out ostentatious profession, but with earnest and never-shrinking 
fidelity to the great principles which his faith inculcates. He 
had long 'looked upon his work as done upon earth, and was 
awaiting in calmness and serene composure the summons which 
was at last kindly sent, translating him from this to a higher 



72 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1855-56. 

world, so gently and free from suffering, that it seemed little else 
than falling asleep. 

1795. — Henry Gassett died in Boston, 15 August, 1855, 
aged 81. lie was son of Henry and Persis (Howe) Gassett, 
and was born in Northborough, Mass., 1 February, 1774. He 
was of French extraction, and the name was, originally, Gachet. 
About the year 1700, two Frenchmen, brothers, Huguenots, 
named Henri and David Gachet, emigrated from Rochelle, 
France, and landed in Boston. ^ David married a Miss White, 
and settled in Raynham, Mass. : Henri married Miss Sarah 
Hoskins, and settled at Taunton, Mass. The descendants of 
the two have Anglicized the name in different ways : those of the 
elder brother writing it Gassett ; and those of the younger, 
Gushee. Most of them reside in Massachusetts, in Bristol 
County, where the descendants of both are numerous ; and but 
few, if any of them, live out of New England. They do not, 
however, retain the name of their progenitors to a very great 
extent, owing to the large proportion of females in the families. 
The subject of this notice was a descendant in the third genera- 
, tion from Henri the Huguenot. He was fitted for college at 
Leicester Academy. On graduating, he began teaching school, 
which he continued some twelve or eighteen months: but, finding 
it not a very profitable business, he relinquished it, and engaged 
in trade, first in the country, and afterwards in Boston, in a 
small, cautious way ; till, about the year 1804, he became the 
head of the extensive dry-goods importing house of Gassett, 
Upham, and Co. ; and on the 18th of April, 1805, he sailed for 
Liverpool, being the first of three visits he made to England. 
He continued doing a large and profitable business for more than 
forty years ; and retired about eleven years before his death, hav- 
ing accumulated an ample fortune. He married, 17 February, 
1812, Lucy Wood, of Northborough; by whom he had nine 
children, five of whom survive him. Three of his sons are 
graduates at Harvard College; namely, Henry in 1834, Edward 
in 1843, and Francis in 1847. There is in the possession of 
the family a letter from the mother — then a widow — of the 
two emigrants, Henri and David, dated "A la Rochelle, le l r 



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de mars, 1711," and directed thus: "La prdsente, qu'il donne 
a Maitre Henri Gachet, charpentier de navire, a Boston." Mr. 
Gassett was one of the most distinguished of the old anti- 
masonic party, and by his pen and wealth contributed liberally 
to its aid. He was an intimate personal friend of John Quincy 
Adams, for whose talents and character he had the most un- 
bounded respect. 

1795. — Hon. Benjamin Goeham died in Boston, 27 Sep- 
tember, 1855, aged 80. He was son of Hon. Nathaniel Gor- 
ham, and was born in Charlestown, Mass., 13 February, 1775. 
Nathaniel Gorham, a member and president of the Continental 
Congress, was the father of a numerous family, among whom 
was the late Mrs. Peter C. Brooks, and a son, who became one 
of the pioneers of Western New York, and died a few years 
since at Canandaigua. Benjamin, who was a younger son, 
soon after graduating, entered the office of the Hon. Theophilus 
Parsons, in Newburyport, as a student of law, where he pur- 
sued and completed his legal studies. He then opened an office 
in Boston, where he permanently resided. He rose rapidly to 
eminence in his profession, and soon became one of the leading 
members of the Boston bar. He was a familiar associate of 
the famous circle in which were comprised Prescott, Jackson, 
Parsons, Gore, Dexter, Sullivan, Cabot, Ames, Otis, Parker, 
and Lowell. From 1820 to 1823, he represented Suffolk 
District in the United-States Congress. He was succeeded by 
Hon. Daniel Webster, who held the office until 1827, when he 
was chosen senator ; and Mr. Gorham was again elected repre- 
sentative from Suffolk, which office he filled with honor to him- 
self and the entire satisfaction of his constituents until 1831, 
when, his term having expired, he declined a re-election. When 
in Congress, although not a frequent speaker, he was always 
listened to with marked attention, as he possessed a mind of 
great logical acuteness, and his speeches commanded the respect 
even of his political opponents. The great questions which fell 
within these periods, under the administration of Mr. Adams 
and Gen. Jackson, were those of internal improvements, the 
revenue-tariff, and the bank of the United States. No one 

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understood them better than Mr. Gorham. He discussed them 
on several occasions with eminent ability; and no student of the 
history of* our legislation on these subjects should fail to consult 
the reports of his arguments. J lis speech, in 1828, on the 
occupation of Oregon, is another monument of his enlightened 
and prudent statesmanship. In 1833, after repeated fruitless 
attempts of his party to choose another candidate, he was 
reluctantly persuaded to accept a third election ; and served in 
the third Congress, under the administration of Jackson ; of the 
proceedings of which body, his speech on the removal of 
the deposits from the United-States Bank, in February, 1834, 
was a prominent feature. After his retirement from Congress, 
he never accepted office, except for a short time as a member 
of one or both branches of the state legislature. Being at 
ease in point of fortune, the remainder of his life was passed in 
the company of his books and his friends. He was of a singu- 
larly sociable nature : he loved to talk, and talked admirably 
well. His equanimity was imperturbable, and his cheerfulness 
seldom clouded. In the closer relations of life, he was singu- 
larly favored. By his first marriage, he became connected with 
the family of Judge Lowell ; and by his second, with that of 
John Coffin Jones. Left a widower for many years, death had 
been made familiar to his mind. He had often expressed a 
desire that it might be sudden ; and the gentle messenger that 
summoned him fulfilled his wish. 

1795. — Dr. Ebenezer Lawrence died in Pepperell, Mass., 
14 June, 1856, aged 86. He was son of Ephraim and Anna 
(Fisk) Lawrence, and was born in Pepperell, 9 January, 1770. 
He pursued his medical studies under the instruction of Gov. 
John Brooks, of Medford ; and settled as a physician in Hamp- 
ton, N.H., where he acquired an extensive practice, which he 
continued with eminent success for fifty-one years. Unlike 
most of his contemporaries in the medical profession, he adminis- 
tered to his patients but very little medicine; reiving rather 
upon the vis medicatrix natura to effect a cure. He married, in 
1800, Abigail Leavitt, daughter of Col. Thomas Leavitt, of 
Hampton ; and had a large family of children. His wife and 



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four children, two sons and two daughters, survive him. He 
was highly esteemed and respected by the citizens among 
whom he so long resided, and who intrusted to him many 
offices of importance and responsibility. He was repeatedly 
elected a selectman, and several times represented the town in 
the New-Hampshire legislature. About five years before his 
death, he returned to his native town, where he resided in the 
family of one of his sons during the remainder of his life. He 
died full of years, universally respected ; and will long be re- 
membered as the "beloved physician." 

1795. — Rev. Silas Warren died in Jackson, Waldo Coun- 
ty, Me., 7 January, 1856, aged 88. He was son of John and 
Mary (Myrick) Warren, and was born in Weston, Mass., 11 
May, 17(37. For several years after leaving college, he was 
engaged in the instruction of youth. He was ordained at 
Jackson, 16 September, 1812. He was a liberal divine of the 
old school ; and after a peaceful ministry of about ten years, in 
consequence of some dissatisfaction with the liberality of his 
opinions, felt by a portion of his people, his pastoral relation to 
the church in Jackson was dissolved. He continued to reside 
in the town, and spent the remainder of his days, until over- 
taken by the infirmity of age, in teaching, and in cultivating a 
farm. He possessed a naturally vigorous constitution, and 
retained his faculties of body and mind to such a degree as 
enabled him to enjoy life to almost the close of its period of 
eighty-eight years. A cheerful and happy temperament made 
him peculiarly acceptable in his favorite occupation of instruc- 
tion, and sustained him under the privations of straitened cir- 
cumstances. His appearance in the pulpit was calm, dignified, 
and grave ; and his manners, in private intercourse, affable and 
polite. He had long looked forward to death as a happy 
release, and at last sank quietly away as in sleep. It was the 
natural, peaceful close of a venerable old age. 

1797. — Leonard Jar vis died in Baltimore, Md., 16 No- 
vember, 1855, aged 76. He was son of Nathaniel Jarvis, and 
was born in Cambridge, Mass., 7 January, 1779. For ten 
years after leaving college, he followed maritime pursuits, 



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:iih1 was master <>f an indiaman, making successful voyages; 
He then (|iiitted this sphere to enter upon mercantile life, and 
formed a partnership with Mr. Asaph Stone; their place of busi- 
ness being first at No. !', Union Street, and afterwards at the 
corner of Court and Washington streets, Boston ; which firm 
continued for six years. During the war of 1812, Mr Jarvis 
disposed of his interest in the business, and resided in Cambridge 
until the close of the war, when he removed to Baltimore for the 
benefit of a milder climate. Here he was highly successful in 
business, and became wealthy. He married, in 1806 or 1807, 
Mary Cogswell, of Littleton. They had no child. He was a 
gentleman without ostentation or display, and remarkable for 
his generosity towards young men in the mercantile profession. 
By his will, he devised the Melange edifice in Baltimore, known 
as the " Jarvis Building," and occupied by the " Baltimore Pa- 
triot," one half to Harvard College, and the other half to the 
Baltimore Humane Impartial Society, the House of Refuge, 
the Aged-Women's Home, and the Baltimore Orphan Asylum. 
These devises do not, however, take effect until the decease of 
his widow, to whom nearly the whole of the income of his estate 
is given during her life. The estate is estimated at not less than 
twenty thousand dollars a year, and is increasing. 

17 ( J7. — Joseph Tilton died in Exeter, N.H., 27 March, 
1856, aged 81. He was born in East Kingston, N.H., 
10 August, 1774; and was fitted for college at Exeter Aca- 
demy. On leaving college, he returned to Exeter, where he 
studied law with Hon. Jeremiah Smith (Rutg. C. 1780), who 
had that year removed from Peterborough to Exeter. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1801 ; and immediately afterwards opened 
an office in Wakefield, N.H., where he practised four or five 
years ; when he removed to Rochester, N.H. , where he remained 
two or three years ; and, in the summer of 1809, went to 
Exeter, and there passed the remainder of his life. He acquired 
an extensive and respectable practice, which he continued for 
forty-five years, when he retired from the active duties of his 
profession. It is a sufficient proof of his professional success, 
that he gained a prominent position at a bar where Webster, 



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Mason, Smith, Sullivan, Woodbury, Bartlett, Cutts, and Haven 
were his contemporaries and competitors. He was held in high 
estimation by his fellow-citizens, as was indicated, among other 
things, by their electing him to represent the town of Exeter, in 
the New-Hampshire legislature, nine successive years, — from 
1815 to 1823 inclusive. He was a director in the old Exeter 
Bank, for many years, until it closed. In 1806, he married 
Nancy Folsom, of Exeter. She died in 1837. In his pro- 
fessional and social relations, his good-humor was as unfailing 
as his integrity was undoubted. He appeared to regard his 
profession as Iris post of duty, in which he was to do his part in 
guarding and advancing the interests of society. He passed 
through life in the enjoyment of the respect of his brethren of 
the bar, and the confidence of the community. He lived to a 
good old age, and his memory will be long cherished by those 
who knew him. 

1797. — Dr. John Collins Warren died in Boston, 4 May, 
1856, aged 77. He was the eldest often children of Dr. John 
and Abigail (Collins) Warren ; and was born in Boston, 
1 August, 1778. His father, Dr. John Warren (H.C. 1771), 
was born in Roxbury, Mass,, 27 July, 1753 ; studied medicine 
with his brother, Gen. Joseph Warren ; and acquired a reputation 
as a physician and surgeon no less extensive than that to which 
his distinguished son afterwards attained. His mother was the 
daughter of John Collins, who was governor of Rhode Island 
from 1786 to 1789, a patriot of the Revolution, and a delegate 
to Congress in 1789. He died at Newport, R.I., March, 1795, 
at the age of 78 years.'- His uncle, Gen. Joseph Warren 
(H.C. 1759), was born in Roxbury, 11 June, 1741 ; and was 
a physician in Boston. He fell a martyr to the cause of freedom 
in the battle of Bunker Hill. 

Dr. Warren was a pupil at the Public Latin School in Bos- 
ton when the first Franklin medals were distributed ; and was a 
successful competitor for one of them, an honor of which he was 
justly proud. After going through a course of medical studies 
under the instruction of Ins father, he went to Europe, where 
he passed several years studying in the hospitals of London and 



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Paris. While in London, lie enjoyed the friendship and instruc- 
tion of Sir A.-tley Cooper. On his return, he established 
himself as a physician in Boston, and soon rose to the highest 
rank in his profession. In 180G, he was appointed assistant- 
professor of anatomy and surgery in Harvard College ; and on 
the death of his father, which took place 4 April, 1815, he 
succeeded him to the full professorship in that chair, and was 
inaugurated 1 November of that year. The duties of this office 
he discharged with signal ability and success for a period of 
thirty-two years. In 1847, he tendered his resignation, which 
was accepted so far as to relieve him from the active duties of 
the professorship ; but he was retained as emeritus-professor until 
his death. He was elected president of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, 7 June, 1832 ; which office he held until 25 
May, 1836, when, at the annual meeting of the society, he 
declined a re-election. He was a member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Philosophical 
Society, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, of the 
Academy of Naples, and the Medical Society of Florence ; a 
corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of 
Paris, and an honorary member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society 
of London. He was, at the time of his death, president of the 
Boston Society of Natural History. He was one of the original 
members of the Boston Light Infantry ; and was third sergeant 
on the first parade ever made by that corps, in 1798. After his 
retirement from the active duties of his professorship, he devoted 
much of his time to the study of the natural sciences. His 
museum of specimens in comparative anatomy, osteology and 
paleontology, was one of the most valuable private collections in 
the world ; and he had probably the most perfect skeleton of 
the mastodon gigantcus of North America known to be in exist- 
ence. He was, in conjunction with his friend and contempo- 
rary, Dr. James Jackson, mainly instrumental in originating the 
Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Asylum, by issu- 
ing, in August, 1810, a circular to the public on the need of 
such an institution ; and afterwards rendered valuable service 
in arranging and perfecting its organization. He was, for nearly 



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thirty-six years (from 6 April, 1817, to February, 1853), at 
first the sole, and subsequently the principal, acting surgeon, 
in daily attendance upon its wards ; and by his eminent talents, 
knowledge, and practical skill, as well as by his fidelity, energy, 
and untiring devotion in behalf of its interests, largely contrib- 
uted to make it what it now is, — an honor to the city and to the 
commonwealth. He married, first, 17 November, 1803, Susan 
Powell, daughter of Hon. Jonathan Mason, by whom he had 
seven children, six of whom survive him. His wife died 3 
June, 1841 ; and he married, second, 17 October, 1843, Anna 
Winthrop, daughter of Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop, by whom 
he had no issue. She died 17 December, 1850. He contrib- 
uted a large number of valuable papers in the Massachusetts 
Medical Society's publications. A few years since, he pre- 
pared and published, at his own expense, and fur gratuitous 
distribution to public institutions and scientific persons, his 
great work on the mastodon of this country ; and, a few weeks 
before his death, he issued a second and enlarged edition, which 
is offered for sale at a price which will barely meet the cost of 
publication. In 1854, he published, in a splendid quarto vol- 
ume, a " Genealogy of Warren." He died full of years and 
honors ; and, by his death, science lost one of its most ardent and 
devoted laborers. 

1798. — Hon. Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay died in 
Cambridge, Mass., 18 May, 1856, aged 78. He was son of 
Jonathan Fay, and was born in Concord, Mass., 10 January, 
1778. He was the orator, who, by the appointment of his 
classmates, addressed them in Latin, according to the usage of 
that time, before the faculty, at the close of the college-studies 
of the class, and at the time of their separation until the 
recurrence of the annual commencement. On leaving college, 
he began the study of law : but soon afterwards he received a 
captain's commission in the American army, raised in conse- 
quence of French hostilities ; and joined the forces under the 
command of Gen. Hamilton, stationed at Oxford, Mass., in 
1798—9. His military career, however, Avas not of long dura- 
tion. After the successful issue of the second mission of envoys 



80 NECROLOGY OF AMUMNI [1855-56. 

sent to France by President Adams, the army was disbanded, 
and young Fay resumed the study of the law. Having com- 
pleted his course of legal studies, and been admitted to the bar, 
lie opened an office in Cambridge, where he soon acquired a 
high reputation as a successful lawyer. He was early and 
happily married, and enjoyed, in an uncommon degree, the 
blessings of domestic life ; and, when the partner of his comforts 
and cares was taken from him, he was not left in entire domes- 
tic solitude, but was cared for and solaced by dutiful and affec- 
tionate children. In his professional business, he was faithful 
and exact, and possessed the utmost confidence of his clients. 
Without seeking for political distinction, he took a reasonable 
degree of interest in politics, which was demonstrated by his 
pen, and by his acceptance of the office of representative of the 
town. He was a member of the governor's council in 1818 
and 1819, and of the Convention for revising the Constitution of 
Massachusetts in 1820. On the 1st of May, 1821, he was ap- 
pointed judge of probate for Middlesex County ; the duties of 
which office he discharged with singular fidelity and promptness 
for nearly thirty-five years, until the latter part of March, 1856, 
when he was compelled to resign it on account of the feeble 
state of his health. He was elected a member of the Board of 
Overseers of Harvard College in 1824, winch office he held until 
the new organization of the board in 1852. In all his civil, 
social, and official relations, his uprightness and urbanity will 
be among the cherished memories of a host of survivors. 

1798. — Hon. Kalph Hill French died in Manchester, 
N.H., 31 October, 1855, aged 79. He was born in Marble- 
head, Mass., 31 January, 1776. He studied law with Hon. 
William Gordon, of Amherst, N.H. (H.C. 1779) ; and opened 
an office in Marblehead, in which town, and in Salem, he prac- 
tised law more than twenty years, during which time he held 
many offices of trust and importance. In 1819, he was elected 
a senator in the Massachusetts legislature from Essex District. 
He was chosen register of deeds for Essex County, and held the 
office twenty years, until he was compelled to resign it on 
account of the impaired state of his health. Three years before 



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his death, he removed to Manchester, where he spent the remain- 
der of his days. He married a sister of Hon. Charles Hum- 
phrey Atherton, of Amherst, N.H. (H.C. 1794). He was 
highly respected by the bar, and by the people of Essex County, 
among whom he passed the greater portion of his life. 

1799. — Hon. Ebenezer Clap died in Bath, Me., 28 
January, 1856, aged 77. He was born in Mansfield, Mass., 
21 January, 1779. His father was a respectable farmer of that 
town. When a boy, he had an unaccountable presentiment 
that he was born to greater things than he saw awaited him 
should he remain and labor with his father on a farm : so he 
betook himself to study, for the purpose of acquiring a liberal 
education. Soon after graduating, he began the study of law 
under Hon. Seth Padelford, of Taunton (Y.C. 1770) ; and 
finished his legal studies under the instruction of Hon. Benjamin 
Whitman, of Pembroke (B.U. 1788). He was admitted to 
the bar at Taunton in 1803, and immediately opened an office 
in Nantucket ; but removed the same year to Bath, where he 
resided during the remainder of his life. During that long 
period, he held many important positions among his fellow- 
citizens ; at the bar, in the legistature of Massachusetts, on 
the bench, as judge of the Court of Sessions, and fourteen 
years judge of the Municipal Court in Bath. In 1812, he 
married Sarah Winslow, of Marshfield, Mass., daughter of 
Dr. Isaac Winslow, and a descendant, in a direct line, from 
Gov. Winslow. They had no children. Judge Clap was an 
honest lawyer. In disposition he was modest, mild, and 
humane ; in integrity he was above reproach. 

1800. — Hon. Timothy Boutelle died in Waterville, Me., 
12 November, 1855, aged 77. He was son of Col. Timothy 
and Rachel (Lincoln) Boutelle, and was born in Leominster, 
Mass., 10 November, 1778. After leaving college, he became 
an assistant preceptor in Leicester Academy, where he remained 
one year. He began the study of law, in his native town, with 
Hon. Abijah Bigelow (D.C. 1795) ; and completed his studies 
in the office of Edward Gray, Esq., of Boston (H.C. 1792). 
Soon after his admission to the bar, he established himself in 

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82 NECROLOGY OV ALUMNI [185.3-.J<;. 

Waterville, :iikI made thai place hie home until the close of his 
life, lie aoon acquired ;i good practice in the counties of Ken- 
nebec :iik1 Somerset, to which his attention was principally 
limited. For ninny years, li«' devoted himself mainly to the 

regular duties of his profession, without being much allured 

by the honors and emoluments of political life. With the 

exception of acting as elector of President and Vice- President 
in 1816, he was not much in public life until after the separation 

of Maine from Massachusetts, when he subsequently served at 

least a dozen years as senator and representative in the legis- 
lature of Maine. lie was a warm friend of the cause of educa- 
tion, and took a deep interest; in Waterville College, of which 
he was, at the time of his death, one of the trustees, and from 
which he received, in 1<N.">!>, the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Laws. During the latter years of his life, having in a great 
measure withdrawn from the active duties of his profession, he 
gave much of his time and labor to the promotion of railroads 
and the means of internal improvement. Active, energetic, and 
public-spirited, he was ever ready to engage in any enterprise, 
which, in his judgment, would tend to promote the best interests 
of the public; and, in all situations of influence and trust, he 
enjoyed, in a high degree, the confidence of those associated with 
him. lie closed a long, active, and useful life with a reputation 
for sound judgment, public spirit, and kindness of heart, which 
might well afford the richest consolation to those who loved and 
respected him. 

1802. — John Mico Gannett, of AValpolc, Mass., died 
suddenly in Boston, 25 July, l<sf>, r ), aged 71. He was son of 
Caleb and Katharine (Wendell) Gannett; and was horn in 
Cambridge, Mass., 15 March, 1784. His father, Rev. Taleb 
Gannett (II. (<. 1763), was horn in Bridgewater, Mass., 
22 August, 17 1"); was ordained in Ilingham, Mass., 12 OctO- 
ber, 17(i7, as minister at Amherst and Cumberland, N.S. ; 
where he remained until 1771, when he returned to Massa- 
chusetts, lie was tutor in Harvard College from 177o to L780 ; 
a member of the corporation from 1778 to 1780: and steward 
from 177 ( J till his death, which took place 25 April, 1818. 



1855-56.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 83 

His mother was daughter of John Mico Wendell, whose wife 
was Katharine, daughter of William Brattle. Mr. Gannett was 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Imme- 
diately after be graduated, he began to study law in the office of 
Hon. William Stedman, of Lancaster, Mass. (H.C. 1 7.S4) ; 
but soon went to Plymouth, Mass., and entered the office of 
Judge Joshua Thomas (H.C. 1772), with whom he studied two 
years. lie was admitted to the bar, in Boston, before he was 
twenty-one years old. lie was married, 30 June, 1 805, in Hart- 
ford, Conn., to Mary Woodbridge Wyllys, daughter of Gen. 
Samuel Wyllys (Y.C. 1758). lie opened an office in North- 
field, Mass., where he remained about two years. While there, 
he was chosen major-general of the militia. Early in the year 
1807, he was prevailed on by his father-in-law, who was secre- 
tary of the state of Connecticut, and between seventy and eighty 
years of age, to move to Hartford. Here he practised law, 
became a prominent politician of the old federal school, was a 
representative to the General Court, a senator, and a member 
of the council. About 1823, his health became impaired so 
much as to prevent him in a great measure from pursuing his 
profession. His wife died 25 April, 1825. This produced a 
a great effect on his spirits, and he spent two or three years in 
Cambridge and Boston. In 1828, his health having improved, 
he moved to Walpole, Mass., with the view of leading a quiet 
country life. Here he declined entering extensively into the 
practice of law ; but, as he held a commission of justice of 
the. peace, he rendered various services, mostly gratuitous, to his 
friends and neighbors. lie was married a second time, 3 April, 
1837, to Hannah, daughter of William Kingsbury, a farmer in 
Walpole. She died in April, 1831). He was a member of the 
school committee of Walpole dming Ins residence there. He 
devoted much of his time to literature, and published many 
articles in the newspapers. " He; was a fine specimen of a gen- 
tleman of the old school, courteous, genial, of great integrity, 
of fine tastes, varied attainments, and of high culture." I lis 
death, which was caused by disease of the heart, took place 
while he was on a temporary visit to Boston. 



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1806. — Charles Hayward died in Boston, I s December, 
185"), aged 68. He was son of Dr. Lemuel Hayward (II. C. 
L768), and was horn in Boston, 18 August, 1787. His father 
was a surgeon in the Revolutionary army ; was afterwards for 
many years an eminent physician in Boston, where he died 20 
March, 1821, aged 72. Mr. Hayward, after leaving college, 
engaged in mercantile husiness, but relinquished it : and, for the 
last thirty-five years, was well known as a notary public. He 
was highly respected as a quiet, unobtrusive, upright, worthy 
citizen. 

1808. — Nahum Houghton Groce died in Westford, 
Mass., 14 March, 1856, aged 74. He was born in Sterling, 
Mass., 8 December, 1781. He was, for fourteen years, pre- 
ceptor of Westford Academy. The subsequent part of his life 
he devoted to agricultural pursuits. 

1812. — George PmLLirs Parker died in New-York City, 
19 January, 185G, aged 62. He was son of John Parker, of 
Boston ; where he was born 2 March, 1793. His name original- 
ly was George Parker ; but, some years after leaving college, he 
took the intermediate name of Phillips. He entered his father's 
counting-room, where he remained a short time ; after which he 
went to Europe, where he travelled several years. For some 
years before his death, he was actively engaged in the temper- 
ance cause, and contributed liberally from his ample means to 
promote its objects. 

1814. — Goriluh Brooks died in Medford, Mass., 11 Sep- 
tember, 1855, aged 60. He was son of Hon. Peter C. Brooks, 
and was born in Boston, 10 February, 1795. He was prepared 
for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. After reading 
law one year in the office of Hon. Lewis Strong at Northamp- 
ton (H.C. 1803), he made a voyage to Calcutta, not in the 
way of business, but for amusement and to see the w r orld. In 
1833, he engaged in mercantile business in Baltimore as one of 
the firm of William E. Mayhew and Co. Possessing an ample 
fortune, he retired after a few years, and returned to Massachu- 
setts, where he subsequently resided, passing the winters in Bos- 
ton, and the summers at his country seat in Medford ; devoting 



1855-56.] OF HAEVARD COLLEGE. 85 

himself to agriculture aud gardening, for which he had great taste 
and fondness. He married the only daughter of Resin D. Shep- 
herd, Esq., of New Orleans. Being of a modest, retiring dispo- 
sition, he did not seek distinction, and was never in public life, 
except that he one year represented the town of Medford in the 
state legislature. Distinguished by spotless integrity, he added 
lustre to a family name already honored in the history of the 
commonwealth for its bravery in the field, and its unsurpassed 
success in active business. 

1814. — Ezekiel IIildreth died in Wheeling, Va., 15 
March, 1856, aged 71. He was born in Westford, Mass., 
18 July, 1784, and was fitted for college at Westford Academy. 
On leaving college, he entered upon the business of teaching. He 
taught in Washington City, D.C. ; Wheeling, Va. ; Zanesville, 
O. ; Louisville, Ky. ; Newmarket, Va. ; and Decatur, Tenn. ; 
in all, forty-two years. He published a grammatical work, enti- 
tled "Logopolis, or City of Words;" also a "Key to Knowl- 
edge ; " an " Essay on the Mortality of the Soul ; " and an 
"Address on Education," delivered before the Educational Con- 
vention of Virginia, held at Clarksburg, Va., in 1836. He 
also left a number of unpublished manuscripts on various sub- 
jects, translations from the Septuagint, &c. He married, in 
June, 1818, Sally, daughter of Jonathan Zane ; had three sons 
and four daughters, of whom all the sons and one daughter sur- 
vive him. His wife died in July, 1854. For the last eight 
years of his life, particularly, his mind was in an unbalanced 
state. The particular form of mental disturbance appeared to 
be an alternation of melancholia and hypochondriasis. His 
reasoning powers, so far from being obtunded, were, at times, 
remarkably acute. Difficult mathematical problems proposed to 
him he would work out. Incorrect quotations from Greek and 
Latin authors, purposely made to him, he would promptly cor- 
rect. There Avas a sullen and clogged idea with him that he 
could not "get along," that is, provide for his family, although 
the family had not only provided for themselves, but for him. 
For the last eight or nine years, the family were very comforta- 
bly situated, without necessity for labor of any kind. Mr. Hil- 



86 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1855-66. 

dreth'fl oldest son, who is an eminent physician in Wheeling, 
supplied his father's place in the family, when the latter, from 
mental malady, was no longer able to preside over the household ; 
and watched over him in his last hours with true filial affection. 

L815. — Am)i:i;\v ( Ynmngham Davison, of Boston, died 
in Lexington, Mass., 27 January, L856, aged 66. lie was son 
of Henry and Mary Davison, and was born in Boston, 5 June, 
1789. After graduating, he began the study of law in the office 
of Hon. George Blake, in Boston (H.C. 1789). From March, 
1818, to November, 1828, he was assistant teacher in the 
Adams School in Boston. For many years previous to his 
death, his health did not permit him to engage in any active pur- 
suit ; and, for the last few months of his life, his mental and 
physical powers were so much impaired, that his friends removed 
him to Lexington, Ay here he was tenderly watched and cared for 
until death came to Ins and their relief. 

1815. — Dr. Thaddeus William Harris died in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., 16 January, 1856, aged 60. He was son of 
Eev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. (H.C. 1787) ; and was 
born in Dorchester, Mass., 12 November, 1795. On leaving 
college, he chose the medical profession; and, after completing 
his studies, he established himself for medical practice in Milton, 
in connection with the eminent physician Dr. Amos Holbrook, 
whose advanced years (although he lived a score of years 
longer) already demanded some relief. As a physician, he 
acquired a solid reputation for learning, fidelity, and skill : but 
his little confidence in himself, and a growing taste for natural 
sciences, led him to desire some mode of life more consistent 
with its leisurely cultivation; and in 1831, on the decease of 
Benjamin Pierce, the librarian of Harvard College, he was 
chosen as his successor. This office he accepted, and held until 
his decease, discharging its duties with great assiduity and fidel- 
ity. In the study of nature, he possessed those rare powers of 
observation, discrimination, and analysis, which, united to a 
hearty love of the pursuit, make a naturalist of the highest 
order. He was a learned botanist : but the department of 
natural history to which he was especially deyoted was the study 



1855-56.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 87, 

of the insect tribes ; and he was recognized, by common con- 
sent of European naturalists, as the first entomologist in the 
world. His " Treatise on some of the Insects of New England 
which are Injurious to Vegetation," first published in 1841 
under a commission from the commonwealth, .is a permanent 
contribution to science, of the highest value. He felt a strong 
interest in our New-England antiquities, and the fruits of his 
occasional investigations in that sphere often enabled him 
to give valuable information to more systematic inquirers. 
He was a member of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society. He lived a purej useful 
life, and died as a Christian dieth, leaving behind him a good 
name. 

1816. — John James Devereux died in Salem, Mass., 
16 March, 1856, aged 59. He was son of Capt. James and 
Sarah (Crowninshield) Devereux, and 'was born in Salem, 
Mass., 12 June, 1796. His father was born in Waterford, 
Ireland, May, 1766 ; and emigrated, when quite young, to 
Salem, where he married, 12 September, 1792, Sarah, daughter 
of John Crowninshield and Mary Ives, both natives of Salem. 
His mother was born in 1768, and died 13 March, 1815. Mr. 
Devereux, the subject of this notice, when in the eighth year of 
his age, entered the private school of Robert Rogers (H.C. 
1802) in Salem, where he remained about two years, when he 
was transferred to the Branch School, established by an associa- 
tion of gentlemen, and under the direction of Benjamin Tap- 
pan (H.C. 1805). Mr. Tappan was succeeded in the school 
by Abiel Chandler and Samuel Adams (both H.C. 1806), by 
whom young Devereux was fitted for college. He entered in 
1812, and remained with his class till 1815, when he left col- 
lege to become a merchant. He did not receive his degree of 
Bachelor of Arts until 1849, and the following year he received 
his degree of Master. He pursued the mercantile profession 
until 1829, when he relinquished it, and began the study of 
law under the instruction of Hon. David Cummins, of Salem 
(D.C. 1806), Upon his admission to the bar, he opened an 



88 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1855-5G. 

office in Boston, where he remained a t'vw years, and then 
removed to New York, and, three years afterwards, to Phila- 
delphia, where he practised nearly twenty years, and attained an 
honorable rank among the learned members of that distinguished 
bar. Being endowed with the rare combination of great versa- 
tility of mind, elegant manners, a facility of speech seldom 
equalled, and generous impulses, he was a welcome visitor at 
every social circle that was graced by his presence. Possessing 
all the advantages that ample wealth could bestow, he travelled 
extensively in various quarters of the globe, and circulated in 
the most polished society of Europe. He visited nearly every 
part of the European continent, and most of the islands of the 
Eastern Archipelago ; having, at one time, actually travelled 
the Island of Java from one extremity to another. He was 
never married. He was polished without affectation, learned 
without pedantry, and, with all his accomplishments, easily 
recognizable as a gentleman and a scholar ; cheerful as to his 
future destiny, sinking to rest with that serenity which results 
from a heart at peace with itself, and with a world to which it 
bids an everlasting adieu. 

1816. — George Frederick Farley died in Groton, 
Mass., 8 November, 1855, aged 62. He w r as son of Benjamin 
and Lucy (Fletcher) Farley, of Brookline, N.H. ; and was born 
in Dunstable, Mass., 5 April, 1793 ; his mother, at the time of 
his birth, being on a visit at her father's house. He was pre- 
pared for college at Westford Academy ; and, on leaving col- 
lege, began the study of law with his brother, Benjamin Marcus 
Farley (H.C. 1804), in Brookline, N.H,; afterwards, for a 
time, studied Avith Luther Lawrence, of Groton (H.C. 1801), 
but completed his studies with his aforementioned brother. 
He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1820, and 
opened an office in New Ipswich, N.H., where he practised 
until 1831 or 1832, when he removed to Groton, Mass., where 
he resided during the remainder of his life. For the last two 
or three years previous to his death, he had an office in Boston. 
He was one of the most eminent and successful lawyers in 
Middlesex County. 



1855-56.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 89 

1817.« — Rev. Asa Cummings died at sea, on board the 
steamship " George Law," on the passage from Panama to New- 
York, 5 June, 1856, aged 65. He was son of Deacon Asa 
Cummings, and was born in Andover (now North Andover), 
Mass., 29 September, 1790. His immediate ancestors lived 
to advanced ages. His grandfather died in 1794, aged 102 
years. His father was born in Topsfield, Mass., September, 
1759 ; and died in Albany, Me., 22 February, 1845, aged 85. 
The family removed to Albany in 1798, where the subject of 
this notice resided until 1811 ; when he left home, and entered 
Phillips Academy in Andover, where he was prepared for 
college: After graduating, he taught school a few months in 
Danvers, Mass. He joined the junior class in the Andover 
Theological Seminary, 6 December, 1817, where he remained 
about two years, when his health failed, and he feared he should 
be obliged to give up his intention of entering the ministry. 
Under the advice of physicians, he left the seminary, and went a 
journey ; and finally became connected with Bowdoin College as 
a tutor in 1819-20. His health improved, and he accepted a 
call from the First Church and Society in North Yarmouth, Me., 
and was ordained 14 February, 1821. His pastoral life, how- 
ever, was brief; for, after a few years, the difficulty which occa 
sioned the suspension of his studies at Andover returned, and 
he was compelled to give up preaching ; but, at the desire of his 
people, he retained his pastoral office until his successor's 
ordination, 17 February, 1830, when he was released from his 
charge, with high testimonials as to his ability and Christian 
character both from the church and the ecclesiastical council. 
On the 18th of August, 1826, he undertook the editorship of the 
"Christian Mirror," a religious paper published in Portland ; and 
on the 31st of July, 1845, he became sole proprietor of it, and 
continued to edit it until the close of the year 1855, when he 
transferred it into other hands. He was a man of vigorous 
intellect, and devoted all his energies to the advancement of the 
cause to which the "Mirror" was originally consecrated. Amidst 
all the conflicts of party strife, he kept on the even tenor of his 
way with a zeal and steadfastness worthy of his Christian 

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calling. His editorial labors, however, yielded him l>ut a 
meagre support during the long years of toil; but unexpectedly, 
a tew lit 1 1 — before bis death, he became possessed of an abun- 
dant competence <>t' worldly goods. From 1<S25 to 1848, he 
was an efficient member of the Board of Trustees of the Maine 
Missionary Society, lie was also a member of the American 
Board, and was ever a warm friend of missions at home and 
abroad. He was deeply interested in the cause of education, 
and rendered long and valuable services in connection with the 
college at New Brunswick and the academy at North Yar- 
mouth. In 1847, the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity 
was conferred upon him by Bowdoin .College. In February, 
185(3, it being known that he was about to make a voyage to 
Panama to visit a daughter who resides there, a large number 
of the most respectable people of Portland, irrespective of politi- 
cal or religious opinions, united in tendering to him a testimo- 
nial of appreciation of his moral worth, and his editorial services 
of nearly thirty years, by an entertainment at Lancaster Hall, 
in Portland, on the evening of the 29th of February. This in- 
vitation, however, he was obliged to decline, on account of the 
brief time allowed for preparation for his proposed journey. He 
left New York in the steamship on the 5th of March, arrived 
safely at Panama, and enjoyed the new scenes and the re-union 
with his children very much ; and it was hoped he might return 
with re-invigorated health. But, during his stay at Panama, 
he was taken ill ; and his physicians deciding that there was no 
hope of his recovery in remaining there, and that the sea air 
might possibly revive him, he was conveyed on board the steam- 
ship which left Aspinwall on the 4th of June for New York ; 
but he rapidly sank, and died on the second night out. On the 
following morning, after a short funeral-service by the Rev. J. 
Sessions, of Albany, N.Y., his body was committed to the deep. 
He was greatly beloved and respected by the community in which 
he lived : his life was one of great activity and usefulness ; and 
it might be truly said of him, that he was "an Israelite indeed, in 
whom there was no guile." 

is 17. — Dr. Edward Augustus IIolyoke died in Syra- 



1855-56.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 91 

cuse, N.Y. , 17 December, 1855, aged 59. His name, origi- 
nally, was Edward Augustus Holyoke Turner ; but, in 1820 or 
1821, he assumed the name of his maternal grandfather, Dr. 
Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem. He was son of William 
and Judith (Holyoke) Turner, and was born in Boston, 12 
July, 1796. He studied medicine under the instruction of Dr. 
James Jackson, of Boston (H.C. 1796). On completing his 
medical studies, he established himself as a physician in Salem, 
Mass. ; where he continued until 1840, when he removed to 
Framingham, Mass. Here he resided two years ; at the end 
of which time he returned to Salem, and there resided until the 
spring of 1853, when he removed to Syracuse, where he re- 
mained until his death. He married Maria Osgood, daughter 
of Dr. George Osgood, of Andover, Mass. His widow and six 
children survive him. He was greatly respected for his estima- 
ble character and professional skill. 

1817. — Paul Willard died in Charlestown, Mass., 18 
March, 1856, aged 60. He was son of Paul and Martha (Has- 
kell) Willard, and was born in Lancaster, Mass., 4 August, 
1795. His maternal grandfather, Col. Henry Haskell, was an 
officer in the Revolutionary army. Mr. Willard was fitted for 
college at Westford Academy. Soon after he graduated, he 
began the study of law in the office of Hon. Calvin W T illard in 
Worcester. Having completed his studies, he was admitted to 
the bar in 1821, and opened an office in Charlestown, where he 
resided, and continued in the practice of his profession, until the 
day of his death. In September, 1822, he was appointed 
postmaster of Charlestown, which office he held for seven years. 
In 1823, he was elected clerk of the state senate, and" was 
re-elected for seven successive years. He held a highly re- 
spectable rank at the Middlesex bar, and had an extensive and 
lucrative practice. He enjoyed the full confidence of his fellow- 
citizens, as was shown by his being repeatedly elected chairman 
of the boaixl of selectmen, and of the school-committee, of 
Charlestown, before the organization of the city government. 
He was either cashier or president of the Charlestown Bank the 
whole time of its existence ; and, at the time of his death, he held 



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the office of magistrate under the truant-act, to which he was 
elected by the city council. He was of an exceedingly sociable 
and affable temperament, and his house was the home of 
hospitality. lie was a worthy and honored citizen. 

L821, — George Barbell Moody died is Bangor, Me., 
6 July, 1856, aged 53. He was son of Joseph and Maria 
(Barrell) Moody, and was born in Kennebunk, Me., 17 July. 
1802. He was fitted for college at the academy in Gorham, 
Me. Immediately after leaving college, he began the study of 
law under the instruction of Hon. William Sullivan, of Boston 
(H.C. 1792). Having completed his legal studies, and been 
admitted to the bar, he opened an office in Kennebunk ; but 
soon afterwards removed to Gardiner, and thence to Brewer, in 
which places he remained but a few months. He then went to 
Oldtown, where he continued several years ; and finally re- 
moved to Bangor, where he practised law for nearly thirty 
years. He acquired a high reputation as a sound, thorough, 
rather than a brilliant lawyer ; and •was especially distinguished 
for dignity and courtesy of manners, as well as integrity of 
character, which made him esteemed by all his professional 
brethren and by his fellow-citizens, so far as his naturally quiet 
and reserved habits admitted general acquaintance. On the 
next day subsequent to his decease, at a meeting of the Penob- 
scot bar, Hon. Edward Kent, who was his classmate and room- 
mate, announced his death, accompanying the announcement 
with some eloquent and highly appropriate remarks, in which 
he spoke of his guileless and confiding nature, his simplicity, 
his high sense of honor, his refined and polished manners, his 
domestic virtues, which always rendered his house attractive to 
its inmates and his friends. He concluded by offering a series 
of resolutions, expressing a high appreciation of his charac- 
ter as a correct, capable, and honorable lawyer, an upright 
man, a useful citizen, a refined and accomplished gentleman. 
Chief- Justice Tenney responded in just and touching terms, in 
which he bore testimony to the worth and virtues of the de- 
ceased, and concluded by ordering the clerk to place the resolu- 
tions upon the records. Mr. Moody married Mary, daughter 



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of Mr. John Barker, of Bangor, and had four children (one 
son and three daughters), all of whom, with their mother, 
survive him. 

1824. — George Thomas Sanders died in Salem, Mass., 
1 May, 1856, aged 51. He was son of Thomas and Elizabeth 
Sanders, and was born in Salem, 30 October, 1804. He was 
descended from Thomas Sanders, one of the first settlers of 
Cape Ann. His great-grandfather commanded the sloop-of- 
war "Massachusetts" at the capture of Louisburg in 1745. 
His grandfather, Thomas Sanders (H.C. 1748), was for seve- 
ral years a counsellor under the provincial government. Mr. 
Sanders did not study a profession. After he graduated, he 
spent a few years in travelling on the Eastern continent. 
When abroad, and particularly in Italy, he acquired a love for 
the music of the opera, which afforded him the greatest pleasure 
throusrh life. After his return, he was married to Marianne, 
daughter of Samuel Browne ; a very estimable lady, who sur- 
vives him. His two sons are all that remain to perpetuate the 
name. He lived in the old mansion-house of his wife's family, 
with hospitality, but without ostentation. He will be long 
remembered for his kind and benevolent disposition, his integ- 
rity and truthfulness. 

182(3. — Hon. Timothy Walker died in Cincinnati, O., 
15 January, 1856, aged 53. He was born in Wilmington, 
Mass., 1 December, 1802. His father was a farmer, and died 
when this son was nine years old ; leaving a widow to rear up six 
children. Through his paternal grandmother, a Miss Brewster, 
he was directly descended from William Brewster, who came 
over in the "Mayflower." The patrimony left was small, and 
the sons had to labor on the farm for their support. Young- 
Walker continued to work on the farm until he was sixteen years 
old, when his friends reluctantly consented to his earnest desire 
to obtain a collegiate education ; and he began his studies with a 
clergyman in a neighboring town , and completed his preparation 
for college at Mr. Putnam's academy, in North Andover. He 
graduated with the highest honors of his class. He supported 
himself, while in college, by school-keeping, and by translating, 



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in his junior year, from the French, for Prof. Farrar, Biot'a 
"Course of Natural Philosophy." During the three years suc- 
ceeding his graduation, he was employed as a teacher of mathe- 
matics in the Round-Hill School at Northampton. In October, 
1*2!), he entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he 
remained until July of the next year ; when he concluded to 
emigrate to the West, and arrived at Cincinnati on the 6th of 
the following month. Here lie completed his studies in the 
office of Messrs. Storer and Fox, who were among the leaders 
of the Cincinnati bar. lie opened an office by himself; but 
soon afterwards entered into partnership with Edward King 
(since deceased) and Salmon P. Chase, then governor of Ohio. 
This firm was dissolved in 1835 ; and he formed a copartnership 
with John C. Wright, well known as a distinguished member of 
Congress, and judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. In 1833, 
he, together with Judge Wright, established a law-school in 
Cincinnati. Two years afterwards, this school was united with 
the Cincinnati College, with, at first, three professors ; but, 
after a short time, it fell under the exclusive charge of Mr. 
Walker. In the winter of 1837-8, he delivered a course of 
ten or twelve lectures, upon commercial law, before the Young 
Men's Mercantile -Library Association. In March, 1842, he 
accepted an executive appointment to the place of president- 
judge of the Hamilton-County Common Pleas, until the next 
legislature should fill the vacancy. In his short term of office, 
he despatched cases with such rapidity, that the court-docket was 
soon materially diminished. In 1844, finding his business 
again increasing, he resigned his professorship which he had 
held in the law-school from its foundation, and took in John 
Kebler as a junior partner. From that time he was a lawyer 
in full practice, confining himself chiefly to cases interesting 
from their intricacy or from the amount of property involved, 
and editing the "Western Law Journal." He declined a judge- 
ship of the Superior Court which was proffered to him by the 
governor of Ohio. The comments and explanations which he 
gave to the students upon their text-books, while professor of 
the law school, were subsequently developed into formal lectures, 



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and published in a volume under the title of '' Introduction of 
American Law." In 1854, the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Laws was conferred upon him by Harvard College. By his 
death, the Cincinnati bar lost one of its brightest ornaments, 
and the profession one of its most profound and learned 
jurists. 

1832. — Lewis Joseph Glover, of Boston, died in Pep- 
pcrell, Mass., 24 June, 1856, aged 49. He was a twin-child 
(the other being a daughter) of Ezra and Eunice Glover, and was 
born in Dorchester, Mass., 26, February, 1807; but was brought 
up in Qnincy, the family having removed into that town during 
his infancy. He began to fit for college at Lexington Academy, 
where he remained a year, when that school was broken up, and 
he was sent to Milton Academy, where he completed his prepa- 
ratory studies. On leaving college, he began the study of 
medicine in Boston, under the instruction of Dr. James Jack- 
son (H.C. 1796) ; and received his medical diploma at the 
end of three years, when he began the practice of his profession 
in Boston. He was quite successful, and was rapidly attaining 
a high rank as a physician, until, about two years before his 
death, he had a slight attack of paralysis, which was followed 
by mental alienation. Tins continued, with occasional lucid 
intervals, until death came to his relief. 

1832. — William Richardson died in Dorchester, Mass., 
6 June, 1856, aged 42. In a fit of temporary insanity, he 
committed suicide by drowning himself in Neponset Eiver. He 
was son of Asa and Elizabeth (Bird) Richardson, and was born 
in Boston, 2 December, 1813. His father was a native of Bil- 
lerica. His mother was a native of Dorchester, but removed to 
Walpole, Mass., about 1804. He was fitted for college at the 
Boston Latin School, and graduated with high honors. On the 
1st of October, 1832, he was appointed usher in the reading- 
department of the Mayhew School in Boston, where he re- 
mained one year. In September, 1833, he began the study of 
divinity in the theological school at Cambridge, but relinquished 
it at the end of six months ; and on the 20th of March, 1834, 
he began the study of law in the office of Hon. Jeremiah 



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Mason, of Boston (Y.C. 1788). Saving completed his legal 
Studies, lie was admitted to the bar in April, l-S.'iT: and, on 
the 6th of the same month, opened an office in Boston, lie 
soon attained to a high rank in his profession, and gained an 

extensive and lucrative business. He was married in Walpolc, 
Mass., 30 June, 183G, to Almira Kingsbury, daughter of lion. 
Daniel Kingsbury of that place, but had no children. As a 
.pleader he was not conspicuous, but as a counsellor he was con- 
sidered as one of the safest and most able of his age in Boston. 
Mr. Mason, with whom he studied, often spoke in strong terms of 
his high intellectual powers and of his great legal attainments, 
lie was distinguished for perfect integrity, for faithfulness to his 
clients, and for the moderation of his charges for Ins services. 
He was largely intrusted with the settlement of estates, and was 
president of the Dorchester Savings Bank. He was in affluent 
pecuniary circumstances, and happy in his domestic relations; 
was highly esteemed by his acquaintances as well as by his 
professional brethren ; of an exceedingly affable and social dis- 
position, but of a somewhat nervous temperament ; and it 
was supposed that anxiety, caused by the overwhelming care 
and responsibility of duties intrusted to his charge by his 
rapidly increasing professional business, induced a temporary 
aberration of mind, which led him to commit the act of self- 
destruction. 

1832. — Archer Ropes died in Baltimore, Md., 2 Octo- 
ber, 1855, aged 46. He was son of William and Rachel 
(Archer) Ropes, and was born in Salem, Mass., 10 December, 
1808. For several years previous to his preparing to enter col- 
lege, he was an apprentice in the apothecary store of Benjamin 
F. Browne in Salem. He was fitted for college at the Salem 
Latin School, then under the charge of Theodore Fames (Y.C. 
1809). His name, originally, was Jonathan Archer Ropes; 
but, the year of his graduation, he dropped the name of 
Jonathan, and was styled Archer Ropes. After going through 
a course of legal studies, he removed to Baltimore, and in 1835 
began the practice of law in that place, where he continued until 
his death. He was married in Baltimore, 13 January, 1852, 



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to M. Emilie W. Tucker, but had no children. He was, for 
several years, commander of the Maryland Cadets, at that time 
regarded as one of the best disciplined companies in the country ; 
was a colonel of Maryland militia ; a past grand-master of the 
order of Odd Fellows ; a Mason ; and, under the municipal term 
of Mayor Jerome, was the city-counsellor of Baltimore. He 
was a man of great kindness of heart and of considerable intel- 
lectual ability. 

1832. — Eev. George Frederick Simmons died in Con- 
cord, Mass., 5 September, 1855, aged 41. He was son of 
Hon. William Simmons (H.C. 1804), and was born in Boston, 
24 March, 1814. He was fitted for college at the Latin School 
in Boston. Immediately after leaving college, he went as a 
tutor in a private family to Europe, and travelled through Italy 
and Greece, where he had the opportunity of cultivating those 
tastes for art, and for foreign languages and literature, which in 
him were always strong. On returning, he studied theology at 
the Divinity School in Cambridge. He was ordained as an evan- 
gelist, in the Federal-street church in Boston, 9 October, 1838, 
and immediately proceeded to Mobile, and there began his min- 
istry, which went on prosperously and acceptably until the 17th 
of August, 1840, when he preached a sermon in which he al- 
luded to the peculiar institutions of the South in a manner which 
gave great offence to the people in Mobile ; and, it being feared 
that personal violence might be offered to him, he was concealed 
on board a vessel in the bay, bound to Boston, and returned to 
his native city. On the 27th of October, 1841, he was installed 
at Waltham as associate pastor with Rev. Samuel Ripley, whose 
daughter, Mary Emerson Ripley, he married 17 October, 1845 ; 
who now survives him, the mother of four orphaned children. 
Here he labored a few years with encouraging results : but his 
views with regard to the slavery question, which he occasionally 
expressed in the pulpit, created dissatisfaction among some of 
his parishioners, which resulted in his leaving the place ; and, in 
1843, he went to Germany for the purpose of theological study, 
where he remained two years. Here he enjoyed the instructions 
of Tholuck and JNeander, and returned with some peculiarities 

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of opinion, but with no less of faith, and a marked increase of 
scholarship. On the 9th of February, 1848, he was installed 
at Springfield as the immediate successor of Rev. William B. 
O. Peabody (II. C. 1816), who had deceased the previous 
year. In this new and attractive field, his labors were abun- 
dantly rewarded until 1851, when his antislavery zeal broke out 
anew ; and, as he had little disposition and less power to concili- 
ate those who differed from him, he Avas compelled to resign his 
post, to bring- back peace to the parish. From Springfield he 
went to Albany ; and, in the prime of life and the maturity of his 
mind, he was devoting himself unremittingly to his ministry, 
and reaping, even then, a high reward, when symptoms of con- 
sumption manifested themselves in his system, and obliged him 
to retire for a short period to the home of his mother in Con- 
cord, where soon, in middle age, the invalid pastor exchanged 
earthly hope for heavenly fruition. 

1836. — Kev. James Chisholm died of yellow fever in 
Portsmouth, Va., 15 September, 1855, aged 39. He was son 
of AYilliam and Martha (Vincent) Chisholm, and was born in 
Salem, Mass., 30 September, 1815. His father, William Chis- 
holm, was born, 24 September, 1772, in Inverness-shire, near the 
city of Inverness, Scotland. His mother, Martha Vincent, was 
born at Salem, Mass., 22 September, 1774. Mr. Chisholm 
was prepared for college at the Salem Latin Grammar School. 
Immediately after graduating, he went to the South to take the 
associate charge of an academy at Charlestown, Jefferson County, 
Va. A year afterwards, he went to Washington, D.C., where 
he taught a private classical school a year and a half. In the 
mean time, he became a candidate for orders in the Episcopal 
church, and left Washington to enter the theological seminary 
near Alexandria, Fairfax County, Va. He was ordained to 
deacon's orders in October, 1840. His first ministerial labors 
were over a colored congregation in Albemarle County, Va., 
consisting of the servants on the estate of Hon. W r illiam 
C. Rives and other gentlemen of that neighborhood, who were 
desirous that all under their care should enjoy the best privileges 
of the gospel in meetings of their own. In this office he had an 



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opportunity to observe the depth and fervency of religious feeling 
which characterizes the African race. In the spring of 1842, he 
was admitted to priest's orders, and was settled over three con- 
gregations, — viz., Trinity Church, at Martinsburg ; Mount- 
Zion Church, at Hedge ville ; and Calvary Church, at Back 
Creek. To the first two of these congregations he preached on 
alternate Sundays, and occasionally at Calvary Church, which 
was built through his instrumentality. These churches were so 
far apart, that it made a circuit of twenty-seven miles to visit 
them. From this scene of his arduous labors, he was called, in 
1850, to Portsmouth, Va., where he was instituted rector of St. 
John's Church. This was a new church, and in a feeble condi- 
tion, numbering scarcely twenty communicants ; but it flourished 
under his ministry, and is now in a vigorous state. Here he 
continued until his death. On the 10th of August, 1847, 
he was married to Jane Byrd Page, daughter of John White 
Page, and great-grand-daughter of Carter Braxton, one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. She died in Feb- 
ruary, 1855, leaving two children, one of whom deceased but a 
few days before his father. During the prevalence of the epi- 
demic in Norfolk and Portsmouth in September last, he felt it 
his duty to remain at his post. With a fidelity and courage 
worthy of his sacred profession, he met the terrible dangers of 
the scene, and continued to the last, ministering consolation and 
hope to the mourning and the dying. He left an only son, 
about seven years old, whose pride it may be, in future years, 
to look back upon the well-spent life and glorious death of his 
father. As a proof of the estimation in which Mr. Chisholm 
was held by the denomination to which he belonged, we may 
state, that, at the annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in Virginia, held at Fredericksburg, in May last, on the 
recommendation of Bishop Meade, in his annual report, it was 
voted that the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be appropri- 
ated, from the fund of the society for the relief of widows and 
orphans of deceased clergymen, annually, until otherwise ordered, 
for the support and education of the son of the deceased, although 
the latter was not a member of the society, and therefore his son 



100 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1855-56. 

waa not entitled to any thing from its funds. An interesting 
memoir of Mr. Chisholm, by Rev. David II. Conrad, of Mar- 
tinsburg, V;i., was published about three months since, and a 
third edition of the hook is now in press. It has received the 
highest commendation from the Rev. Dr. Tyng, of New York, 
and the Rev. Prof. Huntington, of Cambridge. 

1838. — Dr. Henry Ware Wales died in Paris, France, 
8 June, 1856, aged 37. He was son of Thomas B. (H.C. 
1705) and Ann (Beale) Wales, and was born in Boston, 11 De- 
cember, 1818. He was fitted for college, in Boston, at the 
private school of Mr. Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham (H.C. 1809). 
Immediately after graduating, he began the study of medicine 
under the instruction of Dr. John C. Warren (H.C. 1797) ; 
and received his medical degree in 1841. He then went to Paris 
to pursue his professional studies further at the medical schools 
in that city ; but after studying a few months, finding that the 
medical profession was not congenial to his tastes, he abandoned 
it, and devoted himself to the study of philology and the acqui- 
sition of languages, for which he had great fondness. These 
studies he pursued with great ardor and success. He soon 
acquired a thorough knowledge of French, Italian, and German, 
and was able to converse fluently in either of them. He also 
made himself master of the modern Greek ; and, under the cele- 
brated professors and teachers in Prussia, he pursued the study 
of Sanscrit and of other oriental languages. After an absence of 
eight years, he returned to his native city. He did not, however^ 
remain long at home, as his predilections were for a foreign 
residence. On this, his second visit to Europe, he extended his 
travels to 'far eastern regions, visiting Egypt and other oriental 
places of note. This tour extended through a period of three 
years, when he again returned to Boston. Here he remained 
until October, 1854, when he started on his third visit to Eu- 
rope. Before his departure, his health began to fail ; and, some 
time after his arrival in Europe, he was seized with an affection 
of one of his knees. He passed the last winter in Rome, but 
shut up in his house, suffering sickness and pain. In the spring, 
he was carried to Paris, where he submitted to amputation of his 



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limb ; but this could not save him. He gradually sank, and 
breathed his last in a foreign land, comforted, however, by 
the presence of friends and the attentions of a devoted brother. 
His life was consecrated to literature, which he pursued with 
untiring ardor. He had collected a large library of rare and 
valuable works, with which he delighted to pass his time ; the 
temptations and frivolities of great foreign cities offering no 
allurements for him. He pursued the even tenor of his way, 
leading a quiet, blameless life ; and, when the hour of his depart- 
ure arrived, he calmly resigned his spirit into the hands of Him 
who gave it. 

1846. — Bexjamin Newhall died in Milwaukie, Wis., 
30 March, 1856, aged 29. He was- son of Benjamin Franklin 
and Dorothy (Jewett) Newhall, and was born in Lynn, Mass., 
7 March, 1827. His father was born in Lynn, 29 April, 1802. 
His mother was born in Stanstead, Can., in 1807. He removed 
with his father's family to Saugus, Mass., when nine years old. 
At thirteen, he was placed at the Lynn Academy, where he was 
fitted for college by Mr. Jacob Batchelder (D.C. 1830), whom 
he mentions in his autobiography, in the " class-book," as a man. 
of the greatest worth and intelligence. On graduating, he 
entered the Law School in Cambridge, and remained three years ; 
receiving in course the degree of LL.B. in 1849. He then 
returned to Saugus, where he resided until June, 1851. In 
May of this year, he changed his name to Benjamin Newhall ; it 
having been originally Benjamin Franklin Newhall. On leaving 
Saugus, he went to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he passed about 
eight months. In June, 1852, he removed to Milwaukie, and 
entered the office of Messrs. Emmons and Van Dyke for the 
further prosecution of his legal studies. Being shortly afterwards 
admitted to the bar, he began practising in December, 1852, in 
partnership with A. C. May, Esq. Although, at the time of his 
death, he had been but four years in practice, he had attained 
an enviable position as a sound and well-read lawyer. He had 
conducted several very important suits to a successful issue, and 
his business was rapidly increasing. He chiefly excelled in 
equity- and admiralty-law. At a meeting of the Milwaukie 



102 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1855-56. 

bar, held the day after his decease, resolutions of a highly eulo- 
gistic character were passed, in which a tribute was paid to his 
courteous demeanor, and manly, elevated principles, which had 
Avon the good-will of all; to his industry, energy, and marked 
ability, which had given sure promise of a successful and distin- 
guished career in his profession. A committee was appointed 
"to make suitable arrangements for forwarding his remains to 
his friends in Massachusetts, and to invite a clergyman to deliver 
a funeral discourse before the members of the bar." His remains 
were interred at Saugus, 9 April, 1856. When in college, he 
attained an excellent rank as a scholar ; and, throughout his short 
life, he bore a high character for honor and integrity. He was 
of an open, frank temperament, a firm friend, and of a most 
generous, self-sacrificing disposition. He always evinced the 
greatest interest in old college associations ; and the favorable 
effects of the collegiate course upon his hopes, desires, and prin- 
ciples, he has himself recorded. 

1850. — Benjamin Payson Williams died in West Rox- 
bury, Mass., 17 May, 1856, aged 29. He was son of Major 
Benjamin Payson and Margaret (Childs) Williams, and was 
born in Roxbury (now West Roxbury), 6 February, 1827. 
After going through a course of legal studies, he was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar ; opened an office in Boston, and had already 
attained a highly respectable rank in his profession. He took 
an active part in politics, his opinions being those of the old- 
line democracy. He was endeared to all his associates by his 
open and generous disposition, his rare social qualities, and 
his genial and affectionate nature. Of an unusually strong and 
powerful frame, he Avas foremost in athletic sports, into which 
he entered with great zest. In the various literary and social 
clubs which make so prominent a feature in college-life, he was 
particularly conspicuous ; his ready wit, his overflowing humor, 
and his lively and poetic fancy, making him one of the most 
valued members. 

1851. — Peter Smith Byers died in Andover, Mass., 19 
March, 1856, aged 27. He was son of James and Mary 
(Smith) Byers, and was born at Brechin, in Forfarshire, Scot- 



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land, 12 September, 1828. He emigrated with Iris father's 
family to Andover, Mass., in 1836. His father was sent for 
to take charge of the shoe-thread manufactory of Smith, Dove, 
and Co., the first establishment of the kind in the United States, 
in which the subject of this notice worked two years. In 
1844, he entered Phillips Academy for the purpose of being 
fitted for college. In the winter of 1846—7, he taught school 
in Andover, and entered the freshman class of Harvard Col- 
lege in 1847. In his sophomore year, he taught school in Hollis- 
ton ; in his junior, in Andover; and, in his senior, in Boxford. 
He graduated with high honor, being the third scholar in a class 
of sixty-three members. In the following autumn, he was 
engaged as an assistant teacher in the Greek and Latin school 
Avhere he had prepared for college. There he continued for two 
years, discharging the duties of the station with great credit to 
himself, and acknowledged usefulness to the pupils. During 
most of this time, he was a devoted teacher in the Sunday 
school of the Episcopal Church in Andover ; and frequently, in 
the desk, assisted the rector in reading the service, — an accept- 
able duty, winch was congenial with his tastes, and in accord- 
ance with the ultimate object of his pursuits. In the spring of 
1853, he was elected principal of the Abbot Female Seminary 
in Andover ; a position, however, which he did not long occupy, 
as he was appointed to the like office in the High School of 
Providence, R.I. There he continued but a single term, since 
his declining health induced him to listen to overtures tendered 
by the trustees of the Punchard Free School in Andover, 
who, in choosing him its first principal, showed the exalted esti- 
mation in which they held him and his attainments by offering 
him a salary till their building should be erected, that he might, 
by relieving himself of all anxiety, have the opportunity of 
regaining his strength. But his health continued to fail, and 
he fell a martyr to nine years of ceaseless application and 
unyielding toil in the pursuit of knowledge. 

1851. — Edmond Franklin Raymond died in Cambridge, 
Mass., 12 October, 1855, aged 24. He was the eldest son of 
Hon. Zebina L. and Rhoda Clark (Hildreth) Raymond, and 



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was horn in Shutesbury, Mass., 31 July, 1831. When about 
two pears old, he removed with his parents to Boston, where, 
and in the vicinity, they have since lived. He was fitted for 
college at the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, under 
the charge of Mr. Edmund Burke Whitman (II. C. 1838). In 
October of the sophomore year, in consequence of ill health, he 
was obliged to go to Havana, where he .spent the winter* In 
his junior year, he taught school in Sherborn ; and, in his 
senior year, he taught at Taunton, but his health compelled him 
to leave at the end of seven weeks. He studied law, and began 
the practice of his profession in Greenfield, Mass., with flatter- 
ing prospects of distinction; but his health failed, and he 
returned to his father's house, in Cambridge, about a week 
before his death. His early decease is deeply lamented by his 
family circle, and the many friends to whom his amiable dispo- 
sition had endeared him. 

1853. — John Daves died in Beaufort, Cartaret County, 
N.C., 1 October, 1855, aged 23. He was the eldest son of 
John Pugh and Elizabeth (Graham) Daves, and was born in 
Newbern, N.C., 24 December, 1831. His father was son of 
John Daves, a major in the Revolutionary war, and grandson 
of John Daves, who came from Wales. His mother was a third 
wife, and was the daughter of Edward Graham, a lawyer, born 
at Newbern, whose father came from Scotland. Mr. Daves 
studied at the academy at Newbern, N.C., until about fifteen 
years of age, when he went to Scuppernong, N.C., where he 
spent a year in the family of his cousin, Josiah Collins, Esq., 
under the charge of a private tutor. In 1848, he entered the 
freshman class at St. James's College, Md., where he remained 
one year. In 1849, he entered the freshman class at Harvard 
College. At the end of the first term of the junior year, he 
left college on account of his health, and returned at the end of 
the junior year, and passed the examinations with his class- 
mates, but was unable to join the class afterwards. He was, 
however, able to return for his degree, which was granted to 
him, notwithstanding his absence, and to join his class in their 
parting ceremonies. After receiving his degree, he studied law, 



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privately, one year at Scuppernong, when his failing health 
compelled him to abandon it. Possessed of a manly, upright, 
and frank nature, and endowed with brilliant conversational 
powers, — the natural fruit of a gifted and cultivated mind, — 
he was greatly beloved by his classmates and his numerous 
friends. 



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1786. — Rev. Henry Lincoln died in Nantucket, Mass., 
28 May, 1857, aged 91. He was son of William and Mary 
(Otis) Lincoln, and was born in Hingham, Mass., 3 Novem- 
ber, 1765. His mother was daughter of Dr. Ephraizn Otis, 
who was born in Scituate, Mass., in 1708, and was a physician 
in that town. Mr. Lincoln was fitted for college, partly at the 
grammar school in Hingham, under the instruction of Eleazcr 
James (H.C. 1778), and partly by Dr. Joshua Barker (H.C. 
1772), of Hingham. After leaving college, he studied divinity 
with Rev. William Shaw (H.C. 1762), of Marshfield, Mass. 
He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Fal- 
mouth, Mass., 3 February, 1790 ; and continued his labors with 
great fidelity, and to the entire acceptance of his people, until 
26 November, 1823, when, at his own request, his pastoral 
connection was dissolved, and he removed to Nantucket, where 
he resided, during the remainder of his life, in the family of his 
son-in-law, Dr. Elisha P. Fearing (B.U. 1807). He married, 
26 April, 1790, Susannah Crocker, daughter of Timothy Crock- 
er, of Falmouth, and had, by her, seven children, four sons and 
three daughters, of whom six survive him. One son was 
drowned in 1798, at the age of five years and seven months. 
His wife died 29 July, 1819, aged 51. Pie was, at the time 
of his death, with one exception, the oldest clergyman in 
this state; his classmate, Rev. Jacob Norton, of Billerica, 
afterwards the oldest surviving* graduate of Harvard Col- 
lege), being his senior by nearly two years. Mr. Lincoln 
was a gentleman of the old school, of fine personal appear- 
ance, always remarkably neat in his dress, of an affable and 
social disposition, and, above all, a sincere Christian. For 
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was unable to read ; but his mental faculties were unclouded to 
the last. He was a highly popular preacher, a fine speaker ; 
and his sermons were characterized by sound, practical, good 
sense. Having finished the work which was given him to do, 
with a serenity of mind seldom witnessed, he calmly waited his 
summons, and gently passed away, like the twilight of a long 
summer's day, into that solemn darkness which mortal eye 
cannot pierce, but which, to him, doubtless is lighted up by 
the radiance of a never-ending noon. 

1786. — Dr. Joseph Loring died in Lisbon, Portugal, 
about 1 March, 1857, aged 88. He was son of Caleb and 
Sarah (Bradford) Loring, and was born in Boston, 11 August, 
1768. After leaving college, he studied medicine under the 
instruction of Dr. Samuel Danforth (H.C. 1758), of Boston. 
Having completed his medical education, he was employed as sur- 
geon on board the ship " Massachusetts," on a voyage to Batavia 
and Canton. This ship was built in 1789 for Messrs. Shaw 
and Randall, and was the largest merchant-ship in the United 
States. Her commander was Capt. Job Prince, brother of 
James Prince, formerly United-States marshal for Massachusetts, 
The ship sailed from Boston, 28 March, 1790 ; and, after a brief 
stay at Batavia, arrived at Macao 30 September following. 
Soon after her arrival, she was sold to the Danish Company for 
$65,000, and Dr. Loring returned to Boston. He then went 
to France, and settled as a physician in Paris. After remain- 
ing there a few years, he relinquished the practice of his pro- 
fession, and went to Lisbon, where he established himself as a 
merchant, and where he resided during the remainder of his life, 
never having afterwards revisited the United States. He mar- 
ried a Portuguese lady of great personal beauty, and possessing 
a large fortune. His mercantile transactions proved, after a 
time, unsuccessful, and the property fell a sacrifice to unfortu- 
nate speculations. He left several children. 

1792. — Jacob Wyeth died in Cambridge, Mass., 14 Janu- 
ary, 1857, aged 92. He was son of Ebenezer Wyeth, and was 
born in Cambridge, Mass., 29 April, 1764. He worked at 
brick-making, which was his father's occupation, until he was 



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twenty-three or twenty-four years old, when he concluded to 
obtain a liberal education ; and after six months only, devoted to 
the preparatory studies, he was admitted to the freshman class. 
Although so imperfectly prepared, he maintained a respectable 
rank as a scholar, and graduated with distinction. Soon after 
leaving college, he went to Hamburg to transact some business 
for Andrew Craigie, Esq., either in Hamburg or England. 
On his return, he brought home some European goods, which 
he had purchased on his own account. These goods he disposed 
of at a large profit, and soon afterwards married Betsey Jarvis, 
daughter of Nathaniel Jarvis, of Cambridge. He then entered 
into partnership with Phineas Stone (who married his wife's 
sister) ; and they established themselves in Littleton, Mass., as 
country traders. In this business they were unsuccessful, be- 
came insolvent, and Mr. Wyeth was left without a dollar. He 
returned to Cambridge, and his father gave liim a deed of the 
land on which the Fresh-Pond Hotel now stands. He made a 
contract with Walter and Moore, and they erected for him the 
hotel entirely on credit ; he giving them a mortgage on the prop- 
erty as security. In eighteen months after he opened the 
house, he paid the contractors every dollar he owed them ; 
having made it all in this brief period in keeping the public 
house. He continued in the hotel business until he accumu- 
lated a handsome fortune, when he retired, but resided in the 
house until death closed his long life. 

1795. — Samuel Jackson Prescott died in Brookline, 
Mass., 7 February, 1857, aged 83. He was son of Dr. Oliver 
(PLC. 1750) and Lydia (Baldwin) Prescott, and was born in 
Groton, Mass., 15 March, 1773. He was fitted for college at 
Phillips Academy in Andover. After graduating, he studied 
law in the office of Hon. William Prescott (H.C. 1783), and 
was admitted to the bar ; but soon left the profession on account 
of being affected with deafness, and engaged in mercantile busi- 
ness ; having formed a copartnership with Aaron P. Cleveland, 
under the style of Prescott and Cleveland. In this pursuit he 
was unsuccessful, owing to the embargo of 1807, the non- 
intercourse, and the war with Great Britain which ensued. He 



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then became a magistrate, and for more than twenty years was 
a notary-public for Suffolk county. He married Margaret 
Hiller, daughter of Joseph Hiller, Esq. , by whom he had five 
children, — two sons and three daughters ; of whom the sons 
only survive him. He was a man of strong powers of mind, 
and held a hisrh rank in his class as a scholar. He had a 
taste for genealogical and statistical investigations : he com- 
piled the index for the triennial catalogue of Harvard College, 
which was first published in the triennial in 1830. Later 
in life, to his physical infirmity of deafness was added that 
of blindness. His intellectual faculties, too, became clouded ; 
and he passed his closing years at the residence of one of his 
sons in Brookline, where he was kindly cared for with all the 
attention which filial affection could bestow. 

1797. — Hon. Nathaniel Paine Denny died in Barre, 
Mass., 23 August, 1856, aged 85. He was son of Col. 
Samuel Denny, of Leicester, Mass., a distinguished patriot of 
the Revolution, whose father was one of the four original pro- 
prietors of that town, where the subject of this notice was 
born 22 July, 1771. His academical education was acquired 
at Leicester Academy. After graduating, he studied law with 
Hon. Nathaniel Paine, of Worcester (H.C. 1775) ; and, about 
the beginning of the present century, he opened an office in 
Leicester, where he practised law for a period of nearly forty 
years. His name, originally, was Thomas Denny, which he 
changed to Nathaniel Paine Denny, on account of there being 
another Thomas Denny in the town. He became widely known 
as a thoroughly-read lawyer. He was a man of strong mind ; 
and, as a citizen and lawyer, he was distinguished for his 
sound judgment, and a strict and impartial adherence to justice. 
He enjoyed in an eminent degree the confidence and esteem of 
his fellow-citizens ; having represented the town of Leicester in 
the state legislature successively from 1804 to 1809, in 1812, 
1826, 1829, 1834, and 1841. He was elected senator for 
Worcester District in 1824 and 1825 ; was a county-commis- 
sioner ; and, for several years, president of the Leicester Bank. 
In all these stations, he discharged his duties in such a manner 



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as to win the respect and confidence of hie fellow-citizens. His 
modesty forbade his seeking public distinctions; and the honors 
conferred upon him were voluntary on the part of his friends, 
and the result of the unwavering confidence which they placed 
in his integrity. In private life he was social and hospitable, 
and his numerous acquaintances will long remember his house 
on Mount Pleasant as the home of hospitality. In October, 
1798, he married Sally Swan, a native of Leicester, who was 
equally distinguished for her humble piety, intellectual refine- 
ment, and personal charms. He had ten children, of whom five 
are now living. His wife died at Leicester in 1843, aged 71 
years. In 1845, he married Mary, daughter of the late Daniel 
Denny, of Worcester ; and removed to Norwich, Conn., where 
he resided about eleven years. In June, 1856, he returned 
to his native state to pass the few remaining days of his life 
with his eldest son, Hon. Edward Denny, of Barre : and they 
proved to be few indeed ; for in two months he passed peacefully 
from this to the other world. With the exception of the last 
few years of his life, he was in constant and active intercourse 
with his fellow-citizens in their various pursuits ; and whatever 
relation he sustained towards them, or in whatever position 
placed, his motto was always, "Be just, and fear not." 

1797. — Joseph Hurd died in Maiden, Mass., 19 March, 
1857, aged 78. lie was the eldest son of Joseph Hurd, late of 
Portsmouth, N.H., formerly an eminent merchant in Charles- 
town and Boston ; and was born in Concord or Lincoln (during 
the temporary removal of the family from their home in Charles- 
town at the time of the Revolutionary war), 27 July, 1778. 
While in college, he was remarkable for his habitual courtesy 
and kindness, and for his upright and exemplary conduct. He 
held a distinguished rank in his class, and graduated with high 
honor. On leaving college, he adopted the mercantile profession, 
and was known and respected for his intelligence and commercial 
knowledge in his own country, and also in England, where he 
formed important connections in business, and where he passed 
several years of his mercantile life. An eminent member of the 
Essex bar — a classmate of Mr. Hurd — sives the following 



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sketch of his subsequent life : " Soon after the disastrous war of 
1812 broke out, he retired from the troubled affairs of commerce, 
and purchased a farm in Stoneham, beautifully situated on the 
borders of Spot Pond. Here he derived the chief enjoyment of 
his subsequent life from the indulgence of his rural taste and 
his philosophical ingenuity. Science and taste happily co-ope- 
rated in the various improvements which he introduced upon his 
extensive grounds ; but he soon became deeply interested in 
various scientific experiments in regard to heat, and the best mode 
of constructing stoves, the results of which have inured to the 
public benefit through others employed in his service, and who 
availed themselves of his discoveries. He had little thought of 
profit to himself beyond the gratification he found in thus endeav- 
oring to promote the general good. He also turned his atten- 
tion to the manufacture of maple and beet sugar ; and also, 
with more important success, to the refining of sugar, for which 
he obtained a patent, as well as much celebrity. The following 
brief sentence in a letter from France, found among his papers, 
asking for a description of his patent, and highly compliment- 
ing him upon it, gives the best idea of the discovery that we 
can at this moment present: 'You took, in 1844, a patent, 
in your country, for a new system to purify and cleanse 
sugar by means of the centrifuge force.' This patent, with- 
out his seeking, inured largely to his profit, and immensely 
to the profit of those who were so fortunate as to purchase 
it. In his will, he bequeathed the sum of five thousand dollars 
to each of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
and Massachusetts, the income to be applied yearly in giving 
prizes to promote and encourage the manufacture and refining 
of sugar." 

In the early period of Mr. Hurd's residence at his beautiful 
retreat in Stoneham, his friends were often attracted to visit him, 
and were always received with the kindest hospitality. Ladies 
were cordially welcomed among his visitors. Happy would it 
have been had he chosen some one to share his fortunes, and bless 
him in his retirement. Left to his own solitary resources, he 
became so absorbed in his studies and experiments as to impair 



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his health, and finally to obscure liis intellect. During his later 
years, he divided his time between Stoneham and Maiden ; 
boarding at the latter place in a worthy family, where he found 
every accommodation suited to his simple habits. He retained, 
through life, the simplicity of childhood, with the firmness of 
the philosopher. He was as independent in his own opinions as 
he was deferential to others. In respect to his deeper feelings, 
he had great reserve. An unspotted life was his only religious 
profession. Throughout his lingering illness he manifested the 
resignation of a " Christian ; and in peace and serenity his spirit 
ascended to God, who gave it." 

1798. — Rev. Jonathan French died in North Hampton, 
N.H., 13 December, 1856, aged 78. He was son of Rev. 
Jonathan French (H.C. 1771), and was born in Andover, 
Mass., 16 August, 1768. He was ordained at North Hampton, 
18 November, 1801 ; formally resigned the active duties of his 
pastorate, 18 November, 1851 ; and actually resigned them at 
the ordination of Ins colleague, Rev. John Dinsmore, 18 No- 
vember, 1852. He was for many years one of the most active, 
influential, and highly esteemed clergymen in the Piscataqua 
Association of Congregational Ministers. He was known and 
had preached in all their congregations, had been called to 
advise in their churches, and had many friends in all their 
parishes. He was one of the finest specimens of ministerial 
character. Evangelical, sincere, earnest, devoted, he was the 
good preacher, the wise counsellor, the sympathizing pastor, the 
obliging ministerial brother, the ready helper of all good enter- 
prises. He was a diligent student until he reached the age of 
threescore years and ten. He was a reliable historian, and left 
behind him manuscripts of great value. Above all, he was a 
good husband, loving and beloved ; a good father, honored, and 
worthy of honor ; a good neighbor and friend, welcoming every 
worthy guest to his board, and in turn welcomed by wor- 
thy households everywhere. In 1851, the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Dartmouth Col- 
lege. He delivered a half-century discourse four years before 
his death, from the text, "Behold, I die; but God shall be 



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with you." He "came to his grave in a full age," after a useful 
and honored life. 

1798. — Hon. Sidney Willard died in Cambridge, Mass., 
6 December, 1856, aged 76. He was son of Rev. Joseph 
Willard (H.C. 1765), formerly minister in Beverly, Mass., and 
subsequently, for nearly a quarter of a century, president of 
Harvard College; and was born in Beverly, 19 September, 1780. 
Immediately after leaving college, he began the study of theology 
under the instruction of the Hollis Professor of Divinity. In 
April, 1800, the office of librarian became vacant by the death 
of Samuel Shapleigh (H.C. 1789), and Mr. Willard was 
elected as his successor. This office he held five years. In the 
mean time, having completed his theological studies, he was 
licensed as a preacher. He preached in various places in this 
state, as well as in Maine and Vermont ; and was invited to set- 
tle as a minister in Wiscasset, Me., and in Burlington, Vt. ; but 
he declined both invitations. In December, 1806, he was 
chosen Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental 
Languages in Harvard College, and was inaugurated in Febru- 
ary of the following year. This office he held until 1831, dis- 
charging its duties with great fidelity and ability. While 
connected with the college, he was interested in several literary 
publications, and contributed valuable articles to the "Monthly 
Anthology " and " Christian Examiner." He was a member, 
with many other distinguished men, of the Anthology Society, 
to which the Boston Athenaeum is so deeply indebted. He 
contributed many valuable articles for the " North- American 
Review;" and, about two years before his death, he published his 
"Memories of Youth and Manhood," in many points a valuable 
work. His learning was varied and extensive, his style of writing 
clear and plain, his views sound and practical. Accustomed 
to the best society for moral worth, social position, and intellect- 
ual power, he appreciated and enjoyed the advantages he pos- 
sessed. In his manners he was easy, polite, and urbane. He 
was firm jn his principles, and amiable in disposition. His feel- 
ings were tender and refined ; and he was remarkably honest, 
sincere, and truthful. Filial reverence and piety marked his 

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character, and he was esteemed by all who knew him. Nearly 
his whole life was passed in Cambridge ; and he filled various 
offices, always acceptably. He was mayor of Cambridge in 
1848, 1849, mid 1850 ; was several times elected a representa- 
tive to the state legislature ; and was a member of the executive 
council. He was the last relic of the officers of the college gov- 
ernment during the first quarter of the present century. 

1802. — Hon. Samuel Hoar died in Concord, Mass., 
2 November, 1856, aged 78. He was son of Hon. Samuel 
Hoar, and was born in Lincoln, Mass., 18 May, 1778. After 
leaving college, he spent two years as a private tutor in the 
state of Virginia ; and it was while he was on his return to Massa- 
chusetts, and during a temporary stay in the city of New York, 
that the fatal and memorable duel between Hamilton and Burr 
deprived the country of one of its most honored and illustrious 
statesmen. Arriving home, Mr. Hoar entered, as a student of 
law, in the office of the Hon. Artemus Ward, of Charlestown, 
(H.C. 1783), afterwards, and for many years, the learned 
chief-justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was admitted 
to the bar in September, 1805 ; and, the same month, opened an 
office in Concord, where he soon attained a high rank ; and for 
forty years he was one of the most eminent and successful prac- 
titioners in the county of Middlesex. The last few years of his 
life were withdrawn from that activity of legal service, to which, 
from early manhood to late maturity, he had devoted his ener- 
gies ; and the people of Middlesex were deprived of the forensic 
talents and experience of the veteran leader, who, for more than 
a generation, had been engaged in most of the important cases 
tried at their bar. To the neighboring bars of Worcester, Essex, 
and Suffolk, he had been no stranger ; nor was his voluntary 
surrender of the excitements of the more public and conspicuous 
positions of his honorable profession unnoticed or unregretted by 
them. He was associated with Mr. Webster in the celebrated 
case of the Commonwealth against Crowninshield and the 
brothers Knapp, convicted of the murder of Capt. White, in 
Salem, in 1830. He was repeatedly honored by being elected 
to offices of honor, trust, and importance. He was a member of 



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the convention for revising the constitution of the state in 
1820 ; was elected a senator, in the state legislature, in 1825 
and 1833 ; was a member of the executive council in 1845 and 
1846. He was a representative from Middlesex in the twenty- 
fourth Congress of the United States in 1836-7. He was also 
a representative in our state legislature in 1850. In 1844, he 
was appointed by Gov. Briggs, in accordance with a resolve 
passed by the legislature of Massachusetts, a commissioner to 
proceed to Charleston, S.C., to test, in the Court of the United 
States, the constitutionality of an act passed by the legislature 
of South Carolina on the 20th of December, 1825, legalizing the 
imprisonment of colored persons who should enter their bounda- 
ries : but on his arrival at Charleston, and making known the 
object of his visit, such was the excitement against him, on 
account of his mission's being deemed by the people of the place 
an unwarrantable interference with their state rights, that he 
was obliged to leave the city forthwith, to escape threatened per- 
sonal violence ; and he returned to Massachusetts without fulfil- 
ling the object of his appointment. 

The most agreeable characteristic of his latter years was the 
interest with which he pursued every movement of benevolence 
or education. He always possessed a liberal and charitable 
spirit ; but his retirement from the bar afforded leisure for a 
more extensive indulgence and cultivation of such affections. 
From the institution of the sunday-school of his church, until 
the Sunday of his death, he officiated either as teacher or 
superintendent. He was a member of the Massachusetts Peace 
Society and of the American Bible Society, and was an invari- 
able participant in all charitable organizations. His private 
charities also were incessant, ample, and intelligent. He was a 
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society. At the time of his death, 
he was one of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College ; and 
the college, in 1838, conferred upon him the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Laws. In 1812, he was married to Miss Sarah Sher- 
man, youngest daughter of the celebrated Roger Sherman, of 
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Sherman, Ebenezer Rockwood, Edward Sherman, and George 
Friable. The sons were graduates of* Harvard College in 1*35, 
1844, and 18-li>, rcspectively. 

Mr. Hoar was a man of deep religious principles : he was a 
sincere and devout Christian. He will be remembered and 
regretted longer than many men of more brilliant Uvea and more 
conspicuous history, by the bar, of which he was an ornament ; by 
the social circle of friendship, where affections always cluster 
around one so sincere and earnest as he ; by the community 
where he dwelt, and which he aimed to serve ; and by the com- 
monwealth, of which he was a wise and faithful son. 

1802. — Elias Upton died in Bucksport, Me., 16 June, 
1857, aged 85. He was born in Beading, Mass., 16 February, 
1772. He devoted a great portion of his life to the instruction 
of youth in various places. He was, for eleven years, precep- 
tor of the Bluehill (Me.) Academy. He afterwards removed to 
Bucksport, where he engaged in trade, and kept a store in that 
place for many years, and there finally closed his long life. 

1803. — Dr. Thomas Ivers Parker died in Boston, 10 
December, 1856, aged 72. He was son of Rev. Samuel Par- 
ker, D.D. (H.C. 1764), and was born in Boston, 29 March, 
1784. He was fitted for college at the Public Latin School in 
Boston. On leaving college, he chose the medical profession, 
and pursued his studies under the instruction of Dr. James Jack- 
son (H.C. 1796). Having been admitted to practice, he estab- 
lished himself as a physician in the city of New York, where he 
remained several years. He then returned to Boston, where 
he resumed the practice of his profession, and where he resided 
during the remainder of his life. For ten or twelve years, he 
held the office of county-physician for Suffolk. He was never 
married. 

1806. — Rev. Isaac Hurd, of Exeter, N.H., died sud- 
denly, at the residence of his son, in South Reading, Mass., 
4 October, 1856, aged 70. He was son of Joseph Hurd, and 
was born in Charlestown, Mass., 7 December, 1785. On 
leaving college, he began the study of theology under the 
instruction of Rev. David Osgood, D.D., of Medford, Mass., 



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(H.C. 1771). He afterwards went to Europe, and completed 
his studies at Divinity Hall in Edinburgh. He preached his first 
sermon in London. On his return he received several invita- 
tions to settle ; and finally accepted one given him by the Unita- 
rian society in Lynn, Mass., and was ordained 15 September, 
1813. He was dismissed, at his own request, 22 May, 1816. 
A few months afterwards, he was invited to settle over the 
Second Society in Exeter, of the same liberal denomination ; to 
whom he had rendered himself so acceptable, that although he 
frankly avowed he had changed his theological views, and de- 
clared his belief in the Trinitarian doctrine, yet they persisted in 
the call, and he was installed pastor of that church, 11 Sep- 
tember, 1817. Notwithstanding a conscientious difference of 
opinion on certain important points, he continued to enjoy, undi- 
minished, their cordial respect and jflfection. After a ministry 
of thirty years, Rev. Samuel Dering Dexter (H.C. 1843) was 
ordained, 2 December, 1847, colleague-pastor. Mr. Dexter 
died in Roxbury, Mass., 20 April, 1850; and Rev. Asa D. 
Mann was settled as a colleague, 19 November, 1851. In 
Mr. Hurd the society found a single-hearted devotedness to 
his Divine Master as his guide, and to the Scriptures as the 
source and illustration of Christian truth, together with solid 
learning, true taste, ardent piety, and exemplary fidelity in 
all his ministerial and social relations. He was a chaste, cor- 
rect writer, and, to the extent of his vocal powers, a good 
speaker. He was affable in his manners, and given to hos- 
pitality. In 1854, the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity 
Avas conferred upon him by Dartmouth College. He married, 
16 March, 1819, Mrs. Elizabeth Emery, of Exeter, whose 
maiden name was Folsom ; by whom he had two sons, one of 
whom died in early childhood. The other son, Francis Park- 
man Hurd, graduated at Harvard College in 1839, and is a 
physician in Exeter. 

1808. — Rev. James Johnson died in St. Johnsbury, Vt., 
31 October, 1856, aged 77. He was born in that part of 
Lynn which is now within the boundaries of Lynnficld, Mass., 
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tuition of Rev. Henry Ware, D.D. (II. C. 1785), and was 
licensed to preach in 1810. lie was ordained pastor of the 
Presbyterian church in Potsdam, N.Y., 11 March, 1<S12 ; the 
ordination-sermon being preached by Rev. Amos Pettengill, of 

Chainplain, N.Y. (H.C. 1805). In 1817, he was dismissed 

from his charge at Potsdam ; and, in October of the same year, 
was installed pastor of the Congregational church in Williston, 
Vt. AVhilc settled at Williston, he preached at St. Alban's the 
only sermon of his that found its way to the press. It was 
preached at the anniversary meeting of free-masons, on the 
festival of St. John the Baptist, 24 June, 1826, from the text, 
tr Every house is builded by some man ; but he that built all 
things is God " (Heb. iii. 4). On the 28th of February, 1827, 
his pastoral connection was transferred to the Second Congrega- 
tional Church in St. JohnsMry, Vt., where he ministered until 
3 May, 1838 ; when his relation to that church was dissolved, 
and he was installed, February, 1839, at Irasburg, Vt., where 
he labored till the autumn of 1849, when, at the age of seventy, 
he was dismissed, and passed the remainder of his days at the 
Centre Village, in St. Johnsbury, preaching occasionally, as 
opportunity offered, without pastoral relation. He was an 
industrious, faithful, and successful preacher of the word of life. 
His discourses evinced a most affectionate regard for the welfare 
of his hearers, and the simplicity of his manner was as touching 
as his love was sincere. To him more than to any other man is 
to be attributed a great reformation in the moral condition of 
St. Johnsbury. He found his parish full of pestilent doctrines 
and evil practices ; and he gave himself no rest until he had 
extirpated heresy, root and branch, and trained the people to a 
high standard of morality. He " set his face like a flint " against 
all isms. Two revivals of more than ordinary interest occurred 
during his ministry in St. Johnsbury; one of which, in 1831, 
resulted in the addition of more than sixty to the church. The 
whole number added to the church during his eleven years' 
connection with it was one hundred and seventy. The closing 
years of his life were devoted mainly to the care of his faithful 
wife, who was for many years a confirmed invalid. She died 



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only eleven days before him ; and when, at length, she was re- 
leased from her sufferings, there seemed no more for him to do 
oh earth, and he hastened to rejoin her above. 

1808. — Dr. Samuel Scollay died in Smithfield, Jeffer- 
son County, Va., 11 January, 1857, aged 74. He was son of 
Grover and Rebecca Scollay, and w r as born in Ashburnham, 
Mass., 21 January, 1782. His personal character and history 
furnish a beautiful instance of persevering industry and stern 
integrity, united to high mental accomplishments, a heart of the 
noblest impulses, and the keenest sensibility. He began life 
with no advantages, except those which a good name and a 
faithful training of his parents conferred. Having to make the 
money to pay for his education, it was several years beyond 
the usual period of entering upon college-life that he was 
matriculated as a member of an advanced class. While his 
classmates were enjoying the recreations of vacation and the 
endearments of home, he was exerting himself to provide for 
the next term of study by teaching school. Thus, one term 
after another, did he succeed in partially anticipating the ex- 
penses of his education. At college he was distinguished no 
less by his excellence in scholarship among his fellow-students, 
than for his perseverance and fidelity, during the vacation, as a 
public teacher. In 1810, he went to Virginia; settled in the 
vicinity of Charlestown, Jefferson County ; and taught school in 
the family of Mr. Henry Turner. His school soon attracted the 
members of other families, and became very large. For three 
years, he thus labored to free himself from the encumbrance of 
debts contracted in acquiring his education, and also to enable 
him to qualify himself for a profession. He at the same time 
prepared himself to enter upon the course of study at the Jef- 
ferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he graduated as 
one of the first in his class. He began the practice of medicine 
in Jefferson County at the age of thirty ; soon became highly 
distinguished in his profession, not less eminent in his humble 
sphere than some of his contemporaries at college in the exalted 
position they have attained in the nation's councils. By perse- 
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to bring up and educate a large family of children, and become 
one of the most affluent citizens in that part of the state. His 
first wife was Miss Harriot Lowndes, a grand-daughter of the 
late Gov. Lloyd, of Maryland, and first cousin <>t' the late 
Francis S. Key. His second wife was Miss Sarah Page Nel- 
son, grand-daughter of the late Gen. Thomas Nelson. His 
remains repose in the graveyard of the beautiful Episcopal 
church in the village of Smithfield, which his liberality largely 
contributed to build. 

1809. — Hon. Francis Calley Gray died in Boston, 
Mass., 29 December, 1856, aged (3(5. He was son of Hon. 
William Gray, well known as an enterprising and wealthy mer- 
chant ; and was born in Salem, Mass., 19 September, 1790. 
After leaving college, he went through a course of legal studies 
in the office of Hon. William Prescott, of Boston (H.C. 1783), 
and was admitted to the bar ; but he did not pursue the profes- 
sion for any considerable time. Possessing ample wealth, he 
became a man of letters, and devoted his powerful and well- 
cultivated mind to the pursuits of literature. He was private 
secretary of Hon. John Quincy Adams, when the latter was 
minister in Russia. He was one of the most brilliant and 
accomplished writers of his time, and was an early contributor to 
the " North- American Review." He was the author of a valua- 
ble paper, entitled " Remarks on the Early Laws of Massachu- 
setts Bay, with the Code adopted in 1641, and called r The 
Body of Liberties,' " which is replete with important historical 
information. This paper was published in the eighth volume 
of the third series of the Collections of the Massachusetts His- 
torical Society. In August, 1816, he delivered the oration 
before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College, which 
was published in the " North-American Review " for September of 
that year ; and in August, 1840, he delivered the annual poem 
before the same society, which was highly commended in the 
" North- American " for January, 1841. In 1848, he published 
a pamphlet entitled " Prison-Discipline in America," in which he 
made a powerful argument against the separate system of 
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phlet was noticed, in strong terms of commendation, in an able 
article in the "Christian Examiner" for March, 1848. On the 
4th of July, 1818, he delivered the oration, before the town 
authorities of Boston, on the anniversary of the Declaration of 
Independence. This oration takes rank among the ablest pro- 
ductions which that occasion has brought forth. He had a 
decided taste for antiquarian and historical researches. On the 
29th of January, 1818, he was elected a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society, and he edited several volumes of its 
published Collections. He was elected to many offices of honor 
and trust. He Avas a member of the American Academy of Arts 
and Sciences, and its corresponding secretary ; was president of 
the Boston Athenaeum ; a trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital 
at Worcester, on its establishment ; a trustee of the Massachu- 
setts General Hospital in Boston ; and a fellow of Harvard 
College from 1826 to 1836. In 1822, he was elected a repre- 
sentative from Boston to the state legislature ; and was re- 
elected in 1823, 1824, and 1836. He was chosen senator from 
Suffolk in 1825, 1826, 1828, 1829, 1831, and 1843; and was 
elected one of the executive council in 1839. He was vice- 
president of the Prison-Discipline Society ; and was, for several 
years, chairman of the Board of Directors of the state prison at 
Charlestown. In all these several stations, he discharged his 
duties with eminent ability. In 1841, the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Harvard College. 
He died a bachelor. 

1810. — Rufus Bradford Allyn died in Belfast, Me., 
25 January, 1857, aged 63. He was son of Rev. John Allyn, 
D.D., of Duxbury, Mass. (H.C. 1785), and Abigail (Bradford) 
Allyn ; was born in that town, 27 March, 1793 ; and was the 
seventh in descent from Gov. Bradford, of Plymouth Colony. 
He studied law in the office of Hon. William Sullivan, of Boston 
(H.C. 1792) ; and, having been admitted to the bar, he removed, 
28 July, 1815, to Belfast, Me., where he opened an office, and 
there he resided during the remainder of his life. He soon ac- 
quired an extensive and lucrative practice, and became one of the 
leaders of the bar in Waldo County. Some of the wealthy men 

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of Boston were proprietors of large tracts of land in the vicinity 
of Belfast ; and at the solicitation of Mr. Sullivan, himself one of 
the proprietors, .Mr. Allvn accepted an agency for the sale of 
these lands, such an agency not interfering, hut being connected, 
with the practice of his profession, lie continued in this agency 
for more than twenty years, when it was terminated by his pur- 
chase of the remaining interest of the proprietors. He was a 
scholar of rare attainments, of profound learning, and great re- 
finement of taste. As a lawyer, he had hardly his superior in 
the country. He was thoroughly versed in the authorities, and 
of memory so retentive and remarkable as to be able to make a 
brief upon any given question, referring with accuracy to volume 
and page without taking the books from their cases ; and yet he 
was by no means exclusively what is called a book-lawyer. He 
was master of the great principles of jurisprudence ; and, with a 
mind of great logical acuteness as well as comprehensiveness, he 
applied those principles with wonderful readiness and discrimina- 
tion. He was a man of great promptness in business, faithful to 
his clients, and of unbending integrity, but of great eccentricity 
of character, — reserved to the very borders of misanthropy ; an 
hereditary temperament, which oftentimes endured very great 
depression, and which tended to obscure his faith, and obliterate 
the faintest trace of ambition or desire to be known or noticed 
by his fellow-men. He shunned distinction, and every thing- 
like notoriety he avoided with disgust. He might at one time 
have removed to Boston, and become the partner of Daniel Web- 
ster ; but he preferred a life of absolute seclusion. Towards the 
close of his life, those gloomy doubts superinduced by Ins melan- 
choly temperament, which had at times obscured his religious 
faith, were dispelled ; and he often prayed, " Lord, I believe : 
help thou mine unbelief." He was ever a zealous advocate of the 
principles of liberal Christianity maintained by his father ; and 
retained his respect for the institutions of religion, to which he 
gave his personal countenance and support. Late in life, 
he married Rebecca P., the eldest daughter of his friend 
Samuel Upton, formerly of Boston ; and he, perhaps, was the 
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any feeling deserving the name of friendship. Mr. Upton re- 
sided in Belfast for some years prior to his removal to Washing- 
ton, where he died in 1840. His friendship, which was the 
sunny spot in Mr. Allyn's early life, was strengthened by the 
family tie which united them after Mr. Upton's removal to 
Washington, and was only dissolved by death ; and now, in 
firmer, purer, and better bonds, and brighter realms, the friends 
are re-united. His widow and five children survive him in inde- 
pendent circumstances. 

1810. — Frederick Kinloch died in Charleston, S.C., 
7 August, 1856, aged 6Q. He was son of Francis and Martha 
(Ifyitledge) Kinloch, and was born in Charleston, 17 February, 
1790. He began his preparatory' studies under the Rev. Dr. 
Buist ; and at the age of 12 he left Charleston, when his father 
took him to Geneva, in Switzerland, where he remained four 
years under the instruction of the celebrated Prof. Prevost. He 
returned with the family to Charleston in 1806 ; and, that year, 
entered college. For some time after he graduated, he followed 
the business of planting ; but he was an ardent lover of learning, 
and he took great delight in acquiring knowledge in all useful arts 
and sciences, and imparting his information for the benefit of 
others. He was a thorough French scholar ; was also familiar 
with the Italian and Spanish languages. Amiable in private life, 
self-sacrificing for the benefit of others, he was without an 
enemy, and was beloved by all who knew him. Perseverance 
and punctuality were marked qualities in his character ; a sincere 
friend, but vindictive when angry, sarcastic when offended, yet, 
if opportunity offered, ready to forget and forgive. Such was 
Mr. Kinloch. He died at the house of a friend, where he had 
resided for the last thirty-one years of his life ; and, by his own 
request, he was buried in Magnolia Cemetery. 

1812. — Charles Browne died in Boston, 21 July, 1856, 
aged 63. He was son of Moses (H.C. 1768) and Mary 
Browne, and was born in Beverly, Mass., 24 May, 1793. He 
studied law three years in the office of Hon. Nathan Dane, of 
Beverly (H.C. 1778) ; but did not enter upon the practice of the 
profession, but became a partner in the extensive publishing 



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firm of Ililliard, Gray, :)nd Co., of Boston, where he continued 
for many years. He was for nearly ten years a director in the 
New-England Mutual Life-insurance Company, in which he 
took great interest ; and his labors in the management of its 
affairs contributed essentially to its success. He was also, for a 
long period, one of the most active members of the Boston- 
Library Society, and through life was much interested in histori- 
cal and genealogical researches. Modest and unobtrusive in his 
manners, he never sought notoriety, but chose rather to do his 
duty as a good citizen and a Christian, and to be known by 
his works. He was in truth a just and good man ; one who 
contributed much to the happiness and dignity of human life ; 
one who was never weary in well-doing, and sought no other 
reward than the consciouness of a life well spent. He married, 
14 December, 1825, Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of Bryant P. 
Tilden, Esq., of Boston; and had two sons and one daughter, 
who, with his Avife, survive him. 

1812. — Leonard Jackson died in West Newton, Mass., 
1 April, 1857, aged 65. He was son of Major Daniel and 
Lucy (Remington) Jackson, and was born in Newton, 26 July, 
1791. His father was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and 
was in the battles of Concord, Bunker Hill, Germantown, 
and Monmouth. After leaving college, Mr. Jackson studied 
theology, and preached for a few years, but was never ordained. 
The subsequent portion of his life was devoted to agricultural 
pursuits in his native town. 

1812. — George Thacher died in Westford, Mass., 
12 June, 1857, aged 66. He was son of Hon. George (H.C. 
1776) and Sarah (Savage) Thacher, and was born in Biddeford, 
Me., 7 September, 1790. He was partly fitted for college by 
Joseph Adams (H.C. 1805), who was private tutor in his fa- 
ther's family ; and completed his preparatory studies at Gorham 
Academy, under the instruction of Rev. Reuben Nason (H.C. 
1802). He studied law with Hon. Cyrus King, of Saco ; and 
began practice in that place in 1815, where he continued until 
1835. For five years, he was senior partner in law-business 
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of probate of York County. In 1835, he left Saco for Monroe, 
where he remained until 1841, when he was appointed, by Pres. 
Tyler, collector of Belfast, and removed to that place. After 
the expiration of his commission, he returned to Monroe, where 
he resumed business ; and continued there until 1853, when he 
removed to Westford, Mass. He married, 20 January, 1818, 
his cousin, Lucy Bigelow, daughter of Amos Bigelow, of Weston, 
Mass. By this marriage he had six children, four of whom 
survived him. This happy connection was severed by her death 
at Belfast in September, 1843. He married again, 14 June, 
1847, to Lucy, daughter of Dr. Amos Bancroft (H.C. 1791), 
of Groton, Mass., who survived him. Mr. Thacher Avas a gen- 
tleman of most pleasing address, and distinguished for his gene- 
rous qualities. He had a deep sense of the importance of truth 
and justice, and discharged every trust and every duty with 
conscientious integrity. Believing the truth and importance of 
the Christian religion, he was a firm supporter of public worship, 
a communicant and constant attendant on the ordinances of the 
gospel. 

1812. — Dr. Ezekiel Thaxter died in Abington, Mass., 
11 October, 1856, aged 69. He was son of Dr. Gridley and 
Sarah (Lincoln) Thaxter, and was born in Abington, 22 July, 
1787. His mother was daughter of Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, of 
Hingham, the revolutionary hero. He was fitted for college 
at Hingham Academy, under the tuition of James Day (H.C. 
1806). After completing his collegiate course, he studied 
medicine under the instruction of Dr. John C. Warren, of Bos- 
ton (H.C. 1797) ; and, having received his medical diploma in 
1815, immediately began practice with his father in Abington. 
He was quite successful in his profession, and acquired the full- 
est confidence of his patients. As his father advanced in age, he 
gradually withdrew from practice ; and, for some time before his 
death (which took place February, 1845, at the age of 89), he 
gave it up entirely, and his son, the subject of this notice, was 
the only physician in the town, which is quite large, and embraces 
four considerable villages, three of them from one and a half to 
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standing this, so popular was lie, that no physician was able to 
establish himself even in the remote parts of the town while Dr. 
Thaxter retained his health. Now there are seven physicians on 
the territory which he occupied. For the last two or three years, 
he was able to ride very little, having suffered from paralysis, 
which in a great measure disabled one side of his body ; and his 
death occurred from a repetition of the shock. As he resided 
all his life in Abington, he became one of its fathers ; and always 
occupied a large place in the community, being highly esteemed 
and honored by his fellow-townsmen. In 1821, he was chosen 
town-clerk ; and held the office, by successive annual re-elections, 
until 1832. He married Diantha Bi-own, daughter of Samuel 
Brown, of Abington ; and left four children, two sons and two 
daughters, all residing in that town. His wife died a few 
years since. Pie was a man of strong social attachments, and 
loved to live in the bosom of his family, and in the society of his 
near relatives and intimate friends. He was a kind and affec- 
tionate father, a worthy and estimable citizen. 

1814. — Francis Dallas Quash died in Charleston, S.C., 
17 February, 1857, aged 63. He was born in Charleston, 
19 December, 1793. When in college, he was distinguished by 
his strength of memory, his finished recitations, and his graceful 
elocution. He graduated with high honors. Many will re- 
member the animated and graceful manner in which he pro- 
nounced the Latin salutatory oration in August, 1814, and 
the valedictory oration in August, 1817, when he took his 
degree of master of arts. The latter was afterwards published. 
After leaving college, he studied law with Judge Samuel Prio- 
leau, but did not enter upon its practice. Inheriting a planta- 
tion, his time for several years was devoted to its care. During 
eighteen years, he was a member of the legislature of his native 
state ; and, for some time previous to his decease, he held a 
responsible office in the custom-house in Charleston. He mar- 
ried, 6 January, 1819, Emma J. Doughty, by whom he had 
six children, of whom one son and two daughters survived him. 

1815. — Henry Felt Baker, of Cincinnati, died suddenly, 
of congestion of the brain, in Portsmouth, O., 20 February, 



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1857, aged 59. His name, originally, Avas Henry Felt ; but 
his father having died, and his mother marrying Joseph Baker, 
he took the surname of his step-father. He was the only child 
of Henry Felt, and was born in Salem, Mass., 6 November, 
1797. He was fitted for college, in Salem, under the instruction 
of Josiah Willard Gibbs (Y. C. 1809). Immediately after 
graduating, he entered the counting-room of Baker and Hodges, 
of Boston, for the purpose of acquiring a mercantile education. 
Here he remained several years, when the firm was dissolved, 
Mr. Hodges retiring ; and a new copartnership was formed, 
under the style of Joseph Baker and Son. This firm was, after 
a few years' continuance, dissolved; and the subject of this notice 
went to London, where he established himself as a merchant. 
He remained there a little more than two years, and returned to 
Boston in the autumn of 1841. Soon afterwards, he w r ent 
to New Orleans, with a view of establishing himself in that city ; 
but, not succeeding according to his wishes, he returned to Bos- 
ton, and became one of the most active and efficient persons in 
establishing steam flour-mills in East Boston. He was subse- 
quently treasurer of the Flour-Mills Company. It was at this 
period that he exhibited his scientific tastes ; and he was led to 
studies and investigations, that resulted, in 1846, in the patent 
of an invention, and the issue of an illustrative pamphlet entitled 
" Improvement in Steam-boiler Furnaces." The value of this 
improvement, whatever the strength of confidence with which 
he regarded it, he was willing that its own intrinsic merits and 
practical experience should determine. A year or two after- 
wards he went to Cincinnati, where he was employed as a clerk 
in a bank, and where he passed the remainder of his life. In 
1853 and 1854, he published, in two parts, a work on "Banks 
and Banking in the United States ; " which, to men of busi- 
ness, is of intrinsic and durable value. In August, 1856, 
he began writing a series of articles, which were published in 
the "Banker's Magazine," in New York, illustrative of the 
specific interests to which that periodical is dedicated. These 
evidences of a public nature establish the conclusion, that, even 
amid the active and sensitive habits of mercantile life, he did 



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not suffer his mind to be alienated from that love of science and 
letters to which it had been early devoted. He was not an 
inattentive observer of the course of public affairs; and he will 
be remembered by many of his contemporaries in Boston as 
alwavs in sympathy with principles of high honor and of a 
large and generous patriotism. The interests of private virtue 
and social improvement found in him a friend and benefactor. 
He was an early associate and patron of the Young Men's 
Mercantile-Library Association in Boston, and always watched 
its success with the interest of one who had, in some measure, 
been instrumental in its establishment. Jn 1828, he was elected 
commander of the Boston Independent Company of Cadets; a 
post that has ever been connected with high and noble bearing 
in the activities of life. He was a gentleman of polished man- 
ners ; and, possessing rare colloquial faculties, his acquaintance 
was much courted in fashionable society. He was often called 
upon to preside at military dinners and on other festive occa- 
sions, which he did with a grace seldom equalled. He married, 
21 November, 1822, Caroline, daughter of Capt. John Boit, 
of Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mass. ; and had two children, — a 
son and a daughter, — who, with their mother, survive him. 
His son graduated at Harvard College in 1848. Of his domes- 
tic virtues and religious aspirations, of his firmness in trial, his 
fortitude in disappointment, his trust in God, and his hope in 
his Saviour, it is given to those who were united with him 
in the loved and loving experiences of home to cherish memories 
into which it were not fitting for the present writer to enter. 
After a life of activity, varied, as most lives are, by alternate 
elevations and depressions, he passed away ; and his grave is 
found in the quiet and beautiful Spring-Grove Cemetery, in the 
queen-city of the West, Cincinnati. 

1818. — William Augustus Carson died at Sullivan's 
Island, near Charleston, S.C., 17 August, 1856, aged 55. He 
was son of James and Eliza (Neyle) Carson, and was born 
in Charleston, 27 November, 1800. His father was a native of 
Camden, S.C., and was a merchant in Charleston. His mother 
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college, in Charleston, by an Irishman of the name of Moriarty, 
who was a distinguished scholar. After leaving college, he 
studied medicine, but never practised ; being entirely occupied 
with his business as a planter. This, however, did not exclude 
the study of chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mechanics ; for 
all which he had a strong inclination. He married Miss Caro- 
line Petigru, the accomplished and interesting daughter of the 
Hon. James Louis Petigru, the special friend of Daniel Web- 
ster, and the head of the Charleston bar. He had two sons, — 
William and James Petigru, — who survive him, as does also 
his widow. Mr. Carson always preserved the liveliest recollec- 
tion of his college life and college friends, and frequently spoke 
of revisiting those scenes dear to his youth ; but his devotion to 
his business as a planter, and intendant of Sullivan's Island, 
always prevented him from putting this wish into execution. 

1818. — Charles William Cutter died in Chatfield, 
Minn. Ter., 6 August, 1856, aged 57. He was born in Ports- 
mouth, N.H., 11 June, 1799. He studied law in the office 
of Hon. Jeremiah Mason (Y.C. 1788) ; and, having been ad- 
mitted to the bar, he entered upon the practice of the law in 
Portsmouth. For several years he was a contributor to the 
"Portsmouth Journal/' He afterwards entered upon the political 
field; and, espousing the whig cause, was a writer of much spirit. 
For a year or two, he became a resident of Dover, N.H. ; where, 
about 1823, he established the "Dover Republican." From July, 
1825, to January, 1830, he was an associate editor of the 
"Portsmouth Journal." As a writer and public speaker he was 
always well received, and enjoyed a confidence which was re- 
warded by the honors and emoluments of office. He was aide to 
Levi Woodbury when the latter was governor of New Hamp- 
shire, and also aide to Major-Gen. Upham for several years. 
He several times represented Portsmouth in the New-Hampshire 
legislature, held the offices of clerk of the United-States District 
and Circuit Courts in New Hampshire, naval storekeeper and 
navy-agent. With the heads of the national government, en- 
joying the personal friendship of Daniel Webster, he at times 
possessed an influence from which others have derived advan- 

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tage. But, although in a degree successful in his course, he ex- 
pressed deep regrets that he ever left his profession to enter the 
nice in the political arena. To a young man who wished bis 
influence at Washington for an office, he said, " 1 would caution 
every young man to follow any honest calling rather than rely 
for support on any public office." Well informed in the litera- 
ture of the day, interested in all that relates to state histori- 
cal researches, the promoter of the interest of literary institu- 
tions, the ready public speaker, whether on the political platform, 
at the forensic club, or the desk at the lyceum, he was ever 
listened to with attention and interest, and cheered with enthu- 
siasm. Though his aim might be high personal position, he was 
ever noble and generous-hearted to all ; and, in filial affection, 
none could be more devoted. He was never married. 

1818. — Dr. Joshua Henshaw Hayward died in Boston, 
2 December, 1856, aged 59. He was the youngest son of Dr. 
Lemuel Hayward (H.C. 1768), and was born in Boston, 6 
February, 1797. He was fitted for college in Boston by the 
celebrated Ebenezer Pemberton, and graduated with high 
honors. On leaving college, he chose the medical profession ; 
and, having completed the regular course of studies, was admit- 
ted to the degree of M.D. in 1821. Pie then went to Europe 
for the purpose of more thoroughly qualifying himself for the 
practice of his profession. He remained in Europe three years, 
and embarked at Havre for New York on board the packet-ship 
"Cadmus," Capt. Allyn, in the summer of 1824 ; being a fellow- 
passenger with Lafayette, when he visited the United States as 
the nation's guest. He opened an office in Boston, and pursued 
the practice of his profession a few years ; when he relinquished 
it, and became a partner in the house of Fletcher and Hayward, 
wholesale druggists. Possessing a taste for the fine arts, he, a 
few years afterwards, devoted himself to portrait-painting, which 
he followed for some time with good success. In 1849, he was 
appointed a weigher in the Boston custom-house ; which office he 
held until his death. He was a gentleman widely known, and 
universally respected ; of an amiable disposition, modest and 
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married a daughter of the Hon. John McLean, of Ohio, judge 
of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her early and 
sudden death, after a few years of happy union, made a deep 
impression upon him, which was never effaced. She left two 
children, — a son and a daughter; both of whom survived their 
father. 

1819. — Hon. Stephen Clarendon Phillips, of Salem, 
Mass., was lost by the burning of the steamboat "Montreal," in 
the river St. Lawrence, on the passage from Quebec to Mon- 
treal, 26 June, 1857. He was the only child of Capt. Stephen 
Phillips, an active and enterprising shipmaster and merchant ; 
and was born in Salem, 4 November, 1801. He graduated 
with high honors at the early age of 18. After leaving college, 
he began the study of law ; but soon relinquished it, and entered 
upon his father's business as a merchant, in which he engaged 
with great energy and success. While yet quite young, he was 
called into the public service. In 1824, he was elected a repre- 
sentative for Salem to the state legislature ; which office he held, 
by successive re-elections, until 1830, when he was chosen to the 
senate, where he remained two years ; and, in 1832 and 1833, he 
was again a member of the house of representatives. In 1834, 
he was elected a representative in Congress from the Essex South 
District to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. 
Eufus Choate ; and continued to occupy that post until the 
autumn of 1838, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Hon. 
Leverett Saltonstall. On the 5th December, 1838, he was 
elected mayor of Salem ; and remained in office until March, 
1842, when he voluntarily retired, giving the whole of his three 
years' salary, amounting to twenty-four hundred dollars, for the 
benefit of the public schools of Salem. In 1840, he was one of 
the presidential-electors for Massachusetts. He was a member of 
the Board of Education of Massachusetts from 1843 to 1852, and 
a trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital from 1844 to 1850. Of 
positions of less prominence, which he filled with honor, were 
those of president of the Salem Young-Men's Temperance Socie- 
ty, organized 15 February, 1832 ; trustee and president of the 
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Moral Society; one of the managers of the Salem Dispensary, 
ami vice-president of the Salem Savings-Bank. In 1848, lie left 
the whig party, and engaged actively in the free-soil movement, 
in the success of which his sympathies were thoroughly enlisted. 
lie was the candidate of that party for governor of Massachu- 
setts in that and the following - year, but failed of an election. 
From that time he withdrew from political life. In private life 
he was a man of genial disposition, a devoted husband and fond 
parent ; as a man of business he was prompt and energetic ; 
as a Christian he was above reproach. He was a member of 
the Barton-square Unitarian Church, where he was a constant 
attendant for thirty-six years. He was eminently a friend of 
youth, and contributed largely to the support of the Sunday- 
school. Through his munificence a chapel was built ; and the 
church and society, in his death, lost a valued friend and 
member. He married, first, Jane Appleton, daughter of Wil- 
lard Peele, of Salem (H.C. 1792) : she dying, he married, 
3 September, 1838, Margaret M., sister of his former wife. 
The fruits of these marriages are ten children, — six sons and 
four daughters. Three of his sons, Stephen Henry, George 
William, and Charles Appleton, are graduates of Harvard Col- 
lege in 1842, 1847, and 1860, respectively. 

1820. — Eev. William Lawrence Stearns died in Chico- 
pee, Mass., 28 May, 1857, aged 63. He was son of Rev. 
Charles (H.C. 1773) and Susanna (Cowdry) Stearns, and was 
born in Lincoln, Mass., 30 October, 1793. His twin-brother, 
Daniel Munroe Stearns, graduated at Brown University in 
1822. He was fitted for college by his father. After grad- 
uating, he studied divinity under his father's instruction, and 
was licensed to preach in 1823. He was ordained pastor of the 
Unitarian church in Stoughton, Mass., 21 November, 1827. 
His pastoral relation with this society was dissolved 30 March, 
1831. He was installed at Howe, Mass., 30 January, 1833; 
where he labored as a diligent and faithful pastor until 31 De- 
cember, 1849, when he was dismissed, and, 1 January, 1850, 
was settled over the Unitarian church in Pembroke, Mass. He 
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death, when ill health compelled him to resign his pastoral 
charge ; and he removed to Chicopee, where he resided in the 
family of his son until death closed his earthly career. He was 
married, 5 June, 1828, to Mary Monroe, daughter of Isaac 
and Grace (Bigelow) Monroe, of Lincoln ; and had four chil- 
dren, three sons and one daughter, of whom the daughter and 
one son died before their father. Mr. Stearns was emphatically 
a good man, an honest, worthy Christian. He never aimed at 
eminence or sought popularity, but pursued the even tenor of his 
way, laboring diligently in the vocation to which he was called, 
and no doubt made his calling and election sure. His religious 
sentiments, and his views of the course a minister of the gospel 
ought to pursue, are well expressed in the following extract of a 
letter written by him about five years before his death : " I have 
good reason to believe my ministerial services have been as profit- 
able, in a moral and religious point of view, as those of my 
brethren who have had larger salaries and obtained notoriety. 
All kinds and degrees of transcendentalism and Germanism I 
have detested, and held on in the good old ways of evangelical 
preaching, for which I have somewhat lost caste, and been con- 
sidered a little old-fashioned ; but I have the consolation to 
think I have in no way been accessory to infidelity, come- 
outism, and the other abominations in which the times abound. 
I wish we had in our denomination fewer of what are called 
smart preachers, and more of those who teach for doctrine the 
commands of God, and the simplicity of the truth by Jesus 
Christ." 

1822. — Samuel Maxxixg died in Baltimore, Md., 16 May, 
1857, aged 54. He was son of Dr. Samuel (H.C. 1797) and 
Lucy (Cogswell) Manning, and was born in Westford, Mass., 
6 July, 1802 ; but, from the age of eight years until he entered 
college, had his home in Lancaster, Mass., and was fitted for 
admission at Lancaster Academy under the instruction of Pres. 
Jared Sparks (H. C. 1815); but on account of his youth, 
being then only fifteen years of age, he remained one year longer 
at the academy under Mr. Sparks's successor, George Barreil 
Emerson (H.C. 1817), and entered in 1818. In his freshman 



134 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1856-67. 

year, he taught :i school in Lancaster; and, in the winter of his 
senior year, in Leominster. lie was captain of the college 
company; and, at that time, Capt. Shaw, of the United-States 

navy, was under suspension. It was intimated to the company 
that it would he agreeable to Capt. Shaw to see them. Manning 
asked Pies. Kirkland's permission. The president inquired 
whether they intended to visit Capt. Shaw as an officer, or as 
a private citizen. Manning replied, "As a private citizen." 
The company went, and saluted Shaw as had always been the 
custom of saluting their hosts. This gave great offence to 
the officers of the court-martial, among whom was Com. Hull ; 
and, shortly afterwards, Hull published a communication in a 
newspaper, asking to what literary institution they were indebted 
for the insult they had received. The consequence was, Man- 
ning was deprived of a part he was to have performed at Com- 
mencement. It was his intention, through college, to study 
medicine with his father ; and, accordingly, he attended the 
medical lectures in Boston the first winter after he graduated. 
But his father died 11 October, 1822; and he relinquished the 
plan of pursuing the medical profession. In 1823, he went to 
Maryland, and taught a school of twenty or thirty scholars 
in Baltimore County, about eight miles from the city of Balti- 
more, for two years. During the winter of 1825-6, lie studied 
Spanish under Cubi y Soler ; and, the following spring, went to 
Mexico, about eighty miles from the city, to Timascaltapec, 
as agent for a silver-mining company. In the summer of 1827, 
he sailed from Vera Cruz in a schooner for Philadelphia, and the 
voyage occupied sixty-five days. They were twenty days 
becalmed in the Gulf. The vessel had neither quadrant nor 
compass ; and, for twenty days, all on board were reduced to an 
allowance of one biscuit and one pint of water each a day. The 
vessel, too, was leaky ; and all were obliged to take their turns 
at the pumps fifteen minutes successively, until they got into 
Tampa Bay. He lost his hat soon after leaving Vera Cruz, and 
had only a paper one, which he made to keep off the heat of 
the tropical climate. In the spring of 182!), he returned to Bal- 
timore, and on the 10th of June, the same year, was married to 



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Miss Susan Shepard, of Baltimore ; and they passed the summer 
at Cambridge, Mass. In Octoher, he, with his wife, went to 
Mexico, and returned the following spring. A few months 
afterwards, he settled as a lawyer in Baltimore, having attended 
to the study of law at such intervals as he had after first going to 
that city. He was quite successful in the profession, and con- 
tinued in practice until the spring of 1838, when he removed to 
a farm a few miles from Palmyra in Missouri. The first ground 
broken on his farm was to bury one of his five children. He 
intended to practise law ; but he lost his law-books on the way 
out. The Ohio was low, and he had the promise that his books 
should go by the next boat ; but the last he heard of them was 
that the boxes on which his name was marked were seen floating 
in the river. Then he lost several hundred dollars' worth of 
fencing by prairie fire, and other misfortunes followed. Subse- 
sequently he lived for a time at St. Louis, where he was still 
unsuccessful. About 1843, he returned to Baltimore, where he 
remained until his death. For some time, he was in the office 
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company ; and afterwards in 
the coal and iron business, as one of the firm of Manning, 
Stimpson, and Co. Latterly he was in the hardware business with 
his brother Joseph, at the Avalon Iron-works. For the last 
year, he felt that he had a heart disease, and often said that 
he should die suddenly. About four weeks before his death, he 
was taken with hemorrhage from the stomach, which con- 
fined him for several days. He recovered, and went daily to 
the iron-works. On the 15th of May, on the way to the 
cars, on his return, he was taken with fainting, which was 
immediately followed by paralysis ; and he died about one 
o'clock on the following morning. He was a gentleman of fine 
personal appearance, great suavity of manner, and of unblem- 
ished integrity. 

1823. — Rev. William Parsons Lunt, of Quincy, Mass., 
died at Akabah, a town in Arabia Petraea, 21 March, 1857, aged 
51. He left Boston on the 31st December last to make the tour 
of Europe, intending to return in July following; and was on a 
journey to visit some of the spots memorable in sacred history, 



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with the intention of proceeding to Jerusalem. I [e amis attacked, 
while in the desert, with an illness which seemed to be a sharp 
seizure of rheumatism ; and it was with some difficulty that lie 
could reach Akabah. Here his disorder increased in violence : 
assumed a more distinct febrile type : delirium supervened, and 
death closed the scene. His last moments were soothed by the 
kindness and attention of two English gentlemen — one of them 
a clergyman — with whom he had for some time been travelling; 
and one of his own countrymen, — Rev. Mr. Dowdncy, of New 
York, — who was at Akabah, performed the last sacred office to 
his remains. He was son of Henry and Mary (Greene) Lunt, 
and was born in Newburyport, 21 April, 1805. He was fitted for 
college at Milton Academy, and graduated with high honors. 
On leaving college, it was his intention to have pursued the pro- 
fession of law ; and accordingly he entered, as a student, the 
office of Charles Pelham Curtis (H.C. 181 1 ), of Boston. After 
studying one year, he changed his mind, relinquished the study 
of law, and entered the Theological School at Cambridge for 
the purpose of studying for the ministry. After completing his 
studies, he was invited to take the pastoral charge of the Second 
Unitarian Church (now the Church of the Messiah) in the city 
of New York. This invitation he accepted, and Avas accord- 
ingly ordained 19 June, 1828. His pastoral relation w r ith that 
church was dissolved 19 November, 1833 ; and he was installed 
over the Unitarian church in Quincy, 3 June, 1835, where he 
faithfully labored until his death, — a period of nearly twenty- 
two years. He married, 14 May, 1829, Ellen Hobart, daugh- 
ter of Barnabas Hedge (H.C. 1783), of Plymouth, Mass., 
and had seven children, — four daughters and two sons, — of 
whom six, with their mother, survived him : one child died in 
infancy. Dr. Lunt was one of the most popular and eloquent 
divines of the day, and was greatly beloved by the society among 
whom he had labored so long. His writings, both in prose and 
poetry, display a singularly pure taste and classic refinement, and 
have been much admired. Quiet, unobtrusive, and refined in his 
manners, he sought rather to do good than to court popularity. 
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the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1850, the honorary 
degi'ee of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by Har- 
vard College. 

1823. — Dr. John Marsh, of Contra Costa, Cal., was 
murdered about two miles from Martinez, Cal., by two Span- 
iards, named Jose Antonio Olivas and Felipe Morena, on the 
evening of 24 September, 1856. He was son of John and 
Mary (Brown) Marsh, and was born in that part of Danvers, 
Mass., which is comprised within the limits of South Danvers, 
5 June, 1799. His great-grandfather's name was Ezekiel. He 
died the same year that John was born. The paternal estate 
was given by will to John's father. It has been in the Marsh 
family for more than one hundred years. The subject of this 
notice was fitted for college at the academy in Lancaster, Mass. 
When a boy, he was more remarkable for active exercises than 
for abstruse studies. The groves and the brooks around will bear 
testimony to his adroitness in capturing their tenants. No fox, 
squirrel, or muskrat, could live in peace where John wandered. 
Shortly after he graduated, he went to the Western coun- 
try, where he secured employment as Indian agent at one of 
the government stations on the Upper Mississippi. While in 
this region, he began the study of medicine with a physician 
who died before the regular course was completed, and he 
did not finish the usual term. He then removed across the 
country to California, where he established himself as a physi- 
cian. His personal appearance was commanding ; his adroit- 
ness as a manager by no means wanting. He had the good 
fortune to obtain from the Mexican Government a grant of land 
on and about Monte Diablo, and settled thereon in the business 
of rearing cattle ; and his herds became as numerous as those of 
the patriarch of old. When the gold fever began to rage, Dr. 
Marsh's lands began to advance in worth, and it is not now easy 
to estimate their value. The title to a large part of his claim 
was confirmed to him since the United States came in possession 
of the territory. On all hands, it is admitted that his posses- 
sions are large and valuable. He was married in California, in 
June, 1851, to Miss Abba Tuck, of Chelmsford, Mass., who 

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went thence to seek her fortune as an instructress. She died 
before the doctor, leaving one daughter, four years old, as his 
only legal heir. Dr. Marsh had four brothers and two sisters. 
The standing of the family has ever been that of substantial, 
respectable fanners. His father survived him, a vigorous old 
gentleman of the age of eighty years. He had one brother who 
graduated at Yale, and was educated for the ministry, but died 
young. 

The following additional particulars of Dr. Marsh's life and 
character are extracted from a letter written by a gentleman 
formerly of Salem, but who has for some years past been a resi- 
dent of California. It is dated San Francisco, Dec. 11, 1856. 

" He [Dr. Marsh] had seen much of life ; was a keen observer 
of men and things ; had much general information ; read much, 
and was very ready and willing to communicate of his knowledge 
to others. He was a very thorough Spanish and French 
scholar, speaking and writing both languages with great fluency 
and correctness. In his residence for several years in the 
Western states as an Indian agent, he obtained a more perfect 
knowledge of the habits, manners, and dialects of the various 
Indian tribes than any other person, I suspect, except Mr. 
Schoolcraft. His mind was a sound and logical one, capable of 
thoroughly discussing and fully comprehending most subjects. 
His good judgment, together with his resolute and adventurous 
spirit, would, I think, have made him distinguished as a soldier. 
I am not aware that he saw more service than while in com- 
mand of a company of rangers in the Black-Hawk war, under 
Gen. Atkinson. All his qualities of mind, and experiences of life, 
made him a most entertaining and instructive companion. His 
long residence in California, and his intimate knowledge of the 
history of the country in early times, induced Mr. Larkin and 
other pioneers in the settlement of the state often to urge him to 
write an account of the most important portions of its history. 
For such a work he was eminently qualified ; but his own affairs 
had too many claims upon his time and thoughts to allow him 
to do so. He came to this state in 1836, and spent six months 
after his arrival in exploring the state, to select a location. The 



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one upon which he finally decided is situated beyond the coast 
range of mountains, and at the foot of Monte Diablo, a high moun- 
tain across the bay, and in full view from San Francisco. At the 
time he came here, land had not much value ; and he purchased 
the estate of Signor Norriega, a native of California, for almost 
a nominal sum. There are about fifty thousand acres of land 
included in the estate. Much of it is excellent for cultivation ; 
but he has devoted himself to the business of cattle-raising, 
gradually increasing his stock, till he had, at the time of his 
death, some four or five thousand head. He lived for many 
years in an adobe house, which he built with the assistance of 
Indians hired for the purpose. He was twice plundered in eai'ly 
times by gangs of thieves, to which his almost solitary mode of life 
exposed him. When the gold-fever broke out in this state, all 
the persons in his employment left him, and went to the mines. 
He went there likewise, and was tolerably successful ; but fell 
sick in a short time, and returned to his rancho. The growth 
of San Francisco and other cities and towns has of late greatly 
increased the value of his property, as it has opened a market 
for cattle, which of course, in early times, did not exist. He 
had just completed a beautiful house, and was making arrange- 
ments for that comfort and enjoyment which he had for many 
years denied himself. But he was not permitted to carry out his 
plans, and to spend the evening of his life in ease and enjoyment, 
as he had contemplated. He was doomed to death by felon hands 
at the very time when all life's projects seemed to be accom- 
plished, and the burden and heat of the day was to be succeeded 
by rest and enjoyment. Truly the ways of Providence are 
inscrutable ! " 

The writer of the above extract states previously that he had 
received a letter from the doctor the day but one before his death, 
requesting him to go with the bearer of the note to give evidence 
against some cattle-thieves, who had committed many depreda- 
tions on his property. The doctor intended to visit San Fran- 
cisco on the day of his assassination. He started about noon in 
his buggy for Martinez, about twenty miles from his residence, 
where he would take water conveyance to San Francisco ; and 



140 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1856-57. 

about dark, when two miles from Martinez, he was met by the two 
wretches, who, it is supposed, threw a lasso over him, and then 
dirked him. He inner could be induced to go armed, although 
so exposed to peril in consequence of plunderers of his timber 
and cattle, against whom he had instituted legal proceedings. 
The two murderers, however, were not among this class of per- 
sons. They were men who had been in his employ, and who 
knew his habits. It is conjectured that they knew of his having 
four hundred dollars about his person, which, together with the 
gold watch, were taken. Dr. Marsh retained a warm attach- 
ment for his friends, and was intending to visit his native town 
the following spring. 

1825. — Dr. John Goodhue Treadwell died in Salem, 
Mass., 6 August, 1856, aged 51. He was son of Dr. John 
Dexter Treadwell (H.C. 1788) and Dorothy (Goodhue) 
Treadwell ; was born in Salem, 1 August, 1805 ; and was fitted 
for college at the Latin School in Salem. He held a high rank 
as a scholar in his class, and graduated with distinguished 
honors. Immediately after graduation, he began the study of 
medicine under the instruction of Dr. William Johnson Walker, 
of Charlestown (H.C. 1810). He attended two courses of 
medical lectures in Boston, one in New York, and spent one sea- 
son in a dissecting-room in Baltimore. Having completed his 
medical studies, he received the degree of M.D. in 1828. In 
August, 1829, he went to London; in the spring of 1830, to 
Dublin ; and the following summer to Paris, at the time of the 
revolution, the scenes of which he saw. Thence he went again 
to London, and returned home in November, 1830. He then 
established himself as a physician in Salem, when he rose rapid- 
ly to distinction, and in a few years stood at the head of the 
medical profession in his native city. When thus in the full 
tide of a successful and lucrative practice, in November, 1839, 
he made a post-mortem examination of a child which had died 
of scarlet fever ; and, through a slight sore on one of his fingers, 
the virus became infused into his system, which affected him 
severely, although he continued his practice until March, 1841, 
when he was obliged to give up, and did nothing for two or 



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three years. He subsequently, however, so far recovered, that 
he was consulted at home, and occasionally visited some of his 
patients. His father died 6 June, 1833-, at the age of 65 ; and 
he lived with his mother, who survived him. He was never mar- 
ried. Pie was somewhat eccentric, but was enthusiastically fond 
of his profession, ignored almost every thing but that, and read 
scarcely any work that did not pertain to it. By his will he made 
several valuable public bequests. The principal one, amounting 
to nearly fifty thousand dollars, was to Harvard College, for the 
establishment of a free course of medical lectures. The property 
appropriated for this purpose was given to the college after the 
decease of his mother, who was then about eighty years of age. 
The principal conditions of this bequest are, that the money is 
to be appropriated to the establishment of professorships of anat- 
omy and physiology. The candidates for these offices are to be 
examined, before appointment, by a commission of experienced 
men, after the custom of the French university. If the income 
of the funds appropriated should not be sufficient for the support 
of the professors, then they are to be allowed to lecture before pri- 
vate classes, but not to the Lowell Institute or to public lyceums. 
His valuable library, containing all the latest medical European 
publications, was left to the college under certain conditions. In 
case the college authorities should not accede to the conditions of 
the will, the whole amount, after the death of his mother, goes 
to the Massachusetts General Hospital, without conditions. A 
valuable theological library he bequeathed to the Barton-square 
Church, in Salem, for the use of the pastor. A fine farm of 
seventy acres, situated in Topsfield, Mass., he left to the Essex 
Agricultural Society, for the purposes of an experimental farm. 
1828. — Henry Swasey McKean died in Boston, 17 May, 
1857, aged 47. He was son of Eev. Joseph (H.C. 1794) 
and Amy (Swasey) McKean, and was born in Boston, 9 Feb- 
ruary, 1810. He was fitted for college at the Latin School in 
Boston, and graduated with high honors. In the winter of his 
senior year, he kept school at Nine-acre Corner, in Concord, 
Mass. Immediately after graduating, he was employed as as- 
sistant in the private school of Charles Winston Greene (H.C. 



1 t2 NBCEOLOGT OP ALUMNI [185G-57. 

L802), :ii Jamaica Plain ; but was taken sick a few weeks after- 
wards, and left. He next taughl a school ;i short time in Cam- 
bridge, [n January, 1830, he entered the Law School in Cam- 
bridge, where he remained aboul six months; when, on the l*th 

of August the Same year, he was appointed tutor in Latin in 

Harvard College; which office he held until August, L835, when 
he resigned, and began the >i\u\y of engineering under Loammi 
Baldwin (II. C. 1800), of Charlestown, and continued in this 
profession, with some intervals, during the remainder of his life. 
For this occupation he had peculiar qualifications, as he was an 

excellent mat heinat ieian, and was thoroughly versed in the theo- 
retical part of the profession. lie had an accurate eye, was an 
excellent draughtsman, and performed with great neatness all the 
mechanical work which his duties required. During part of 
1842, he was engaged in instruction in Georgia, and in 1845—6 
in New Jersey. From .Inly, 1*12, until May, 1845, he was 
librarian of the Mercantile-Library Association in the city of 
New York, during which time he made the catalogue of the 
library. From July, 184(5, to October, 1848, he was employed 
as assistant engineer of the second division of the Boston Water- 
works, residing at Newton Lower Falls; his friend Mr. Ches- 
borough being the official chief. Here he labored with great 
assiduity and skill, and earned the praise and confidence of those 
who were intrusted with the supervision and responsibility of 
that enterprise. Two of the works constructed under his imme- 
diate charge — abridge across the river Charles, and an em- 
bankment over which the aqueduct is carried, and under which 
the county road goes — have been mentioned as works reflecting 
great credit on his skill and science. He continued in the ser- 
vice of the city so long as Mr. Chesborough was chief engineer ; 
and, upon that gentleman's removal from the city, Mr. McKean 
resigned his place, and opened an office as engineer on his own 
account. At the time of his death he was meditating a change 
of occupation, and proposing to engage in some literary em- 
ployment. He married, 3 November, L851, Anna II. Ilosmer, 
of Camden, Me., and had one child. His life was eminently 
pure, honorable, and faithful. He had excellent capacities, 



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trained by thorough and careful preparation ; and yet his success 
in life was not commensurate with his gifts and accomplishments. 

No man was less zealous to set forth his own claims, or more 
inclined to recognize the claims of others. His health was not 
robust. His temperament was sensitive, and inclined to melan- 
choly, which affected him to such a degree, as to induce, occa- 
sionally, mental alienation, in a paroxysm of which he ended his 
life with his own hand. He was a man of warm domestic and 
social affections ; and in his relations of friend, son, brother, 
husband, and father, he tasted the purest joys of which the heart 
is capable. lie was often tried, alike by external disappoint- 
ments and by struggles with his own peculiar temperament ; 
but he never lost his sense of the paternal relations of God, and 
never murmured at any dispensation of his providence. 

1830. — Hon. Thomas Hopkinson died in Cambridge, 
Mass., 17 November, 1850, aged 52. He was son of Theo- 
philus and Susanna (Allen) Hopkinson, and was born in New 
Sharon, Me., 25 August, 1804. He was fitted for college at 
the academy in Farmington, Me., and graduated with the 
highest honors of his class. After leaving college, he studied 
law under the instruction of Hon. Luther Lawrence (II. C 
1801) ; and, on being admitted to the bar, became his partner, 
and began to practise in Lowell. He was married, 1 Novem- 
ber, 183(5, to Corinna Aldrich Prentiss, daughter of Hon. John 
and Diantha (Aldrich) Prentiss, of Keene, N.II. ; with whom 
he lived in uninterrupted harmony and happiness for twenty 
years. In his profession, he soon rose to an eminent rank ; and 
was extensively known as an able lawyer and safe counsellor. lie 
was elected a representative from Lowell to the state legislature 
in 1838 and 1845 ; and, in 1846, he was chosen senator from 
Middlesex District. He was chairman of the committee on rail- 
roads at a time when the situation was one of great importance. 
In 1848, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas ; 
but resigned his seat on the bench the following year, having 
been elected president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad ( !or- 
poration. When he entered upon the duties of his office as 
president, he removed to Boston, where he lived until the autumn 



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of 1855 ; when he removed to Cambridge, and there resided 
until his death. He was a member of the convention called in 

1853 for revising the constitution of the state. In the discharge 
of his duties, lie was conscientious, judicious, and indefatigable ; 
and entered into the various details so minutely, that the labor 
and anxiety, in connection, perhaps, with organic tendencies to 
disease, seriously impaired his health. In May, 1856, he went 
to Europe ; travelled in England, Scotland, France, Germany, 
Holland, the upper part of Italy ; and spent some time in Swit- 
zerland. On his return, he was not able to resume his duties, 
but rapidly sank away, until death terminated his severe suf- 
ferings. 

1831. — Rev. Nathaniel Tucker Bent died in Worcester, 
Mass., 4 November, 185G, aged 46. He was son of Josiah and 
Susannah Bent, and was born in Milton, Mass., 30 July, 1810. 
He began his preparatory studies for admission to college under 
the instruction of his brother, Rev. Josiah Bent, of Weymouth 
(H.C. 1822), and completed them at Phillips Academy in An- 
dover. He held a distinguished rank in college, and Graduated 
with high honors. After leaving college, he began the study of 
divinity at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in New York ; and 
finished his studies, under the instruction of Bishop Alexander 
Viets Griswold, at Salem. He was ordained as deacon at 
Salem, and was afterwards instituted as rector over the follow- 
ing churches : viz., Grace Church, in New Bedford, where he 
remained five years ; St. John's, in Charlestown, two years ; 
St. Thomas's, in Taunton, five years ; St. John's, in Bangor, 
Me., two and a half years ; All Saints', in Worcester, two and 
a half years ; and Grace Church, again, in New Bedford, a few 
months. He retired from the ministry in 1853, and removed to 
Worcester, where he taught a private school for young ladies, 
which he continued until his death. He married, 18 June, 
1834, Catharine E. D. Metcalf, eldest daughter of Col. Eliab 
W. Metcalf, of Cambridge ; and had four children by birth, and 
one by adoption ; three of whom, including the adopted one, are 
now living. Mr. Bent was a man of rare abilities, and, when 
engaged in the active duties of the ministry, was very popular 



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and efficient as rector. Much might be said truly in praise of 
his fidelity to all the details of parochial duty, the interest he 
took in promoting musical taste in its sacred department, his 
zeal in missionary enterprises, and the genial flow which he 
manifested in social life. Not a few of his former parishioners 
and friends will long cherish a most kindly remembrance of him 
as a beloved and respected pastor. 

The mortality of the class of 1831, of which Rev. Mr. Bent 
was a member, was very great during the first twenty years 
after graduation ; twenty-four of the sixty-five members of the 
class having died before the systematic publication of the obituary 
notices commenced in the year 1852. The following list com- 
prises a brief notice of these twenty-four : William Austin, 
jun., a school-teacher, son of Hon. William and Charlotte (Wil- 
liams) Austin, born in Charlestown, 15 September, 1811 ; died 
of typhus fever, in Groton, 8 January, 1835 ; never married. 
Rufus Bigelow, son of Tyler and Clarissa (Bigelow) Bigelow, 
born in Watertown, 3 June, 1809 ; died of consumption, in 
Watertown, 6 July, 1832 ; never married. Robert Adams 
Coker, a school-teacher, son of John and Hannah (Adams) 
Coker, born in Newbury, 19 March, 1807 : died of consump- 
tion, in West Newbury, 30 March, 1833 ; unmarried. George 
Clinton Coombs, a lawyer, born in 1810 ; died of consumption, 
in New Bedford, 16 March, 1835 ; unmarried. Edward Cruft, 
jun., a lawyer, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Storer) Cruft, 
born in Boston, 7 May, 1811 ; died of hemorrhage from the 
lungs, at St. Louis, Mo., 23 April, 1846; unmarried. Jere- 
miah George Fitch, a lawyer, son of Jeremiah and Mary (Rand) 
Fitch, born in Boston, 19 February, 1810 ; died of dropsy at 
Orono, Me., 25 February, 1845 ; unmarried. John Giles, jun., 
a lawyer, son of John and Mary (Adams) Giles, born in Towns- 
end, 3 March, 1806 ; died of consumption, at Townsend, 14 
June, 1838 ; unmarried. William Cabot Gorham, a merchant, 
son of Hon. Benjamin and Susan (Lowell) Gorham, born in 
Boston, in the year 1814 ; died of typhus fever, in Boston, 
18 April, 1843 ; unmarried. Robert Habersham, jun., a stu- 
dent of law, son of Robert Habersham, of Savannah, Ga. ; died 

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of typhus f<\<T, at Savannah, 30 August, 1832, aged twenty 
years; unmarried. Charles George Clinton Hale, son of Moses 

mid Mary Hale, born in Winchenden, August, 1M2; died of 
consumption, in New York, <> May, 1*;;:.>; unmarried. John 
George McKean, a lawyer, son of Rev. Prof. Joseph and Amy 
(Swasey) McKean, born in Cambridge, 1 December, 1811; 
died of spinal disease, in Cambridge, 31 January. 1851 : un- 
married. Benjamin Franklin Parker, a physician, son of 
Samuel and Eusebia Parker, born in Roxbury, 21 November, 
1810; died of consumption, in Roxbury, 27 February, 1844; 
unmarried. John Peters, a merchant, son of John and Char- 
lotte (Langdon) Peters, of Boston; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., 
17 July, 1846 ; unmarried. Francis James Russell, a merchant, 
son of Nathaniel and Martha (Le Baron) Russell, born in Ply- 
mouth, 11 September, 1811 ; died in Plymouth, of typhus 
fever, 6 September, 1833 ; unmarried. Francis Henry Silsbee, 
who studied law, and subsequently became a bank-officer, son of 
Zachariah F. and Sarah (Boardman) Silsbee, born in Salem, 
6 September, 1811 ; died of marasmus, in Salem, 19 Novem- 
ber, 1848 ; unmarried. William Hammatt Simmons, a teacher 
of elocution, and law-student, son of Judge AVilliam and Pris- 
cilla (Hammatt) Simmons, born in Boston, 11 May, 1812; 
married at Roxbury, 24 June, 1840, Josephine Matilda Fel- 
lowes, daughter of Nathaniel and Aglaie (de Chambellan) 
Fellowes ; died of fever, in Boston, 10 August, 1841. Henry 
Cheever Simonds, a lawyer, son of Shepherd and Joanna Thayer 
(Gool) Simonds, born in Boston, 3 June, 1810 ; died in 
Charlestown, of disease of the brain, 3 April, 1840 ; unmarried. 
Charles Henry Tilghman, a planter, son of William G. Tilgh- 
man, of Talbot County, Md. ; died in Talbot County, Md., 18 
September, 1842 ; unmarried. Abner Bennett Wheeler, a phy- 
sician, son of Abner and Mary (Swift) Wheeler, born in Fra- 
mingham, 2 February, 1812; married at Boston, 26 October, 
1836, Caroline Harris Sumner; died at Somerville, of dis- 
ease of the brain, 8 December, 1847. Alexander Whitney, 
a school-teacher, son of Nathaniel Ruggles and Sally (Stone) 
Whitney, born in Watertown, 12 March, 1810; died of con- 



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sumption, in East Cambridge, 13 May, 1842 ; unmarried. 
Samuel Wigglesworthj a physician, son of Thomas and Jane 
(Norton) Wigglesworth, born in Boston, 16 December, 1811 ; 
married at Boston, 7 December, 1841, Louisa G. Davenport, 
daughter of Isaac and Mary Davenport ; died of disease of the 
spine, 7 April, 1847, at Boston. Frederick Wright, a lawyer, 
son of Theodore and Mary (Dickinson) Wright, born in North- 
ampton, 6 July, 1811 ; married at Willoughby, O., 10 Novem- 
ber, 1841, Helen Irene Wilson, daughter of Samuel Wilson; 
died in Manhattan, O., 10 April, 1846. Hartley Hezekiah 
Wright, a lawyer, son of Hezekiah and Charlotte (Sewall) 
Wright, born in Boston, 22 December, 1812 ; died in Boston, 
8 March, 1840 ; unmarried: 

1833. — Frederick Parker died in Lowell, Mass., 29 
January, 1857, aged 43. He was son of Joseph and Olive 
(Bailey) Parker, and was born in Carlisle, Mass., 2 September, 
1813. He was fitted for college in the adjoining towns. After 
graduating, he taught school in Gloucester and Billerica, Mass., 
and in Hallo well, Me. In the autumn of 1838, he began the 
study of law with Hon. Samuel Wells, of Hallo well. In Sep- 
tember, 1839, he entered the Law School at Cambridge, where 
he completed his legal studies, and received the degree of LL.B. 
in 1841. He then established himself in Lowell. After spend- 
ing a short time in the office of Joel Adams, Esq., of that city 
(H.C. 1805), he was admitted to the bar. In October, 1844, 
he married Harriet M. Kimball. In 1845, he experienced 
a long and severe illness, the effects of which never left him ; 
and, from that time forward, he Avas forced to struggle with ill 
health. In the same year he was chosen one of the school com- 
mittee, and held that office during four successive years. The 
cause of education always interested him ; and, during his term of 
office, he suggested several important changes in the arrangements 
of the Lowell schools. In 1849, he was instrumental in forming 
the Howard Fire-insurance Company, of which, for several 
years, he was secretary and treasurer. In 1852, he opened a 
book and print store in Lowell, and, soon afterwards, another 
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energies to the latter. In this employment lie manifested great 
taste and enterprise. In the summer of 1856, his health failed ; 
and he gave up his interest in his business in Boston, and retired 
to Lowell. in the autumn of that year, he had repeated attacks 
of hemorrhages, and died of consumption. He kept up lu.s lite- 
rary tastes in a greater degree than is usual with men of busi- 
ness. In character he was grave and earnest. He encountered 
reverses ; but maintained, through them all, unsullied integrity. 
No misfortune had power to diminish the energy of his spirit, or 
to mar his Christian temper. 

1834. — Dr. William Putnam Richardson died in Ken- 
dall, 111., 27 March, 1857, aged 41. He was son of Capt. 
William P. and Deborah (Lang) Richardson, and was born in 
Salem, Mass., 15 August, 1815. He was fitted for college at 
the Latin School in Salem. He studied medicine with Dr. 
Abel Lawrence Peirson, of Salem (H!C. 1812) ; and in 1837 
received the degree of M.D., when he entered upon the practice 
of his profession in Salem, where he continued until 184G, when 
he removed to Kendall. There he was chiefly engaged in horti- 
cultural and agricultural pursuits, for which his fine tastes, and 
love of natural history, peculiarly fitted him. While in Salem, 
he was an active and useful citizen, interested in whatever 
tended to elevate and improve the community. He was a valu- 
able member of the school-committee, and a pattern and co- 
worker in various public institutions. He was unmarried. 

1837. — Gales Seaton died in Washington, D.C., 9 
February, 1857, aged 39. He was son of William W. 
Seaton, and was born in AVashington, 27 July, 1817. He 
passed through his preparatory studies for admission into Har- 
vard College under the instruction of the faculty of Georgetown 
College. On graduating, he selected the law as his profession ; 
and repaired to the University of Virginia, where he prosecuted 
his legal studies with assiduity and success. He was admitted 
to the bar, but was not long in discovering that he had given 
his nights and his days to the study of that, as a science, which 
his mental habitudes and literary tastes rendered distasteful as a 
pursuit ; and, abandoning the profession of the law, he became 



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the proprietor and editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) "Register," in 
which station he continued several years. lie afterwards went 
to Europe, where he resided some time. While there, he Avas 
intrusted by the administration of President Taylor with a 
confidential commission, which he discharged in a manner highly 
creditable to himself, and satisfactory to the Secretary of State, 
— the late John M. Clayton. Of polished manners and com- 
manding presence, without fear and without reproach, shrinking 
instinctively from all that was base in act or indecorous in 
thought and word, he was, in all respects, a true gentleman. In 
every relation of life, he was remarkable for a singular combina- 
tion of modesty and self-reliance. To the inevitable ills of life 
he opposed the firmness of manhood with the submission enjoined 
by Christianity ; and, amid the consolations and hopes of the 
latter, his mortal life slowly and calmly ebbed away, until 
the waiting spirit dropped the tabernacle of the flesh to take on 
the robes of immortality. 

1838. — Charles Delano Bowman died in Oxford, Mass., 
19 January, 1857, aged 40. He was the youngest son of 
Joseph and Sally (Penniman) Bowman, and was born in New 
Braintree, Mass., 12 December, 1816. He pursued his prepara- 
tory studies at Leicester Academy, and entered Amherst College, 
where he remained one year, and then entered Harvard. After 
leaving college, he went to Georgia, where he was instructor in 
private schools and families, about three years, at Richmond Fac- 
tory, Richmond County, at Athens, and at Augusta. In 1842, 
he entered the office of Hon. Emory Washburn (W.C. 1817), 
at Worcester, Mass., as a student-at-law. In March, 1845, 
he was admitted to the bar ; and began practice in Oxford, 
22 April, 1845, where he continued to reside until his decease. 
He had, considering his experience, a good knowledge of law ; 
was a man of more than ordinary promise, and of considerable 
literary taste. He had a valuable legal and miscellaneous 
library. The legal part he gave to the Worcester-County Law- 
yers' Literary Association, and the other part to some literary 
institution in AVorcester. 

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daughter of Elnathan and Almira (Jencka) Jones, of Enfield, 

Mass. 

L838. — William Abijah White died in Milwaukie, Wis., 
10 October, L856, aged 38. lie was son of Abijah and Anne 
Maria (Howard) White, and was born in Watertown, Mass., 
2 September, 1<S18. lie was fitted for college at the school of 
Rev. Samuel Ripley (II. C. 1804), of Waltham, Mass. Hay- 
ing chosen the profession of law, he, immediately after graduat- 
ing, entered the Law School in Cambridge, where he pursued his 
professional studies for a year, and completed them in the office 
of Messrs. Charles P. and Benjamin R. Curtis (H.C. 1811 and 
1829) in Boston. He never, however, devoted himself to the 
practice of his profession ; but, becoming very much interested 
in the antislavery and temperance movements, he devoted much 
of his time to lecturing on these subjects, and, in 1843, spent 
several months in travelling through Ohio and Indiana, holding 
antislavery meetings in company with Frederick Douglass and 
George Bradburn. In the course of this tour, their meetings 
were frequently broken up by mobs ; and both White and Doug- 
lass were, on one occasion, severely wounded by stones. After 
his return, he took a farm in Watertown, which he cultivated 
until his father's death in 1845 ; for two or three years after 
which, he was engaged in settling his estate. He then engaged 
in manufacturing, and for some time edited a temperance news- 
paper in Boston. In 1853, he removed to Madison, Wis. The 
circumstances of his death were peculiar. On the 7th of Octo- 
ber, 1856, he went from Madison to Milwaukie for the purpose 
of attending the state fair. On the evening of the 8th, he went 
to Chicago by steamboat, and returned to Milwaukie on the 
evening of the 9th. On the morning of the 10th, he left the 
hotel, intending to return in a few hours, and was recognized by 
a person on the street shortly afterwards. From that time, 
nothing was seen or heard of him, although every exertion was 
made to find him, until the first day of May following, when his 
body was found near the Lake Shore, above North Point, in Mil- 
waukie. It was so much decayed, that it was identified only by 
the clothing, watch, and a peculiar watch-key. By what means 



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he came to his death, remains a mystery. He married first, 
7 May, 184(3, Harriet T. Sturgis, daughter of Nathaniel R. 
Sturgis, of Boston : she died 18 March, 1850. On the 15th 
of May, 1855, he married Ada A. Butterfield, daughter of 
Justin Butterfield, of Chicago, 111. His children were, by his 
first wife, William Howard White, born 21 February, 1847 ; 
Amy, born 25 September, 1848 : by his second wife, Justin 
Sydney, born 19 April, 1856; died 5 February, 1857. Mr. 
White possessed fine natural abilities. He was a fluent and im- 
pressive speaker, and wrote with ease and pungency. He had a 
keen wit and a strong sense of humor, which frequently did him 
good service in the hot debates in which he was engaged as an 
antislavery and temperance orator. He was incapable of a mean 
or selfish act ; and his first and only rule of action was to do 
what was right, without regard to whether it was expedient. As 
an eminently brave, sincere, and honest man, who earnestly 
sought to do his duty, and to benefit his fellow-men at the cost 
of much personal sacrifice to himself, he will long be remem- 
bered with affection and respect by an unusually extensive circle 
of friends and acquaintances. 

1842. — Dr. Henry Whiting died in Lowell, Mass., 
23 June, 1857, aged 35. He was son of Capt. Phineas 
and Sarah (Coburn) Whiting, and was born in that part of 
Chelmsford which is now Lowell, 19 February, 1822. He was 
prepared for college partly in Lowell ; partly in Boston, under 
the instruction of Mr. Tilly Brown Hayward (H.C. 1820) ; 
and partly in Deny, N.H. He studied medicine with Dr. Gil- 
man Kimball, of Lowell ; Dr. Marshall S. Perry, of Boston ; at 
Jefferson College, Penn. ; and at the Harvard Medical School. 
He received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson College in 1845, 
and immediately afterwards went to Paris, where he passed one 
year in completing his professional studies ; and, in the succeed- 
ing year, travelled over various portions of the continent. On 
his return, he began practice in the city of Lowell. He held a 
good rank among the profession ; was of a frank, noble disposi- 
tion ; and was popular with all classes. He was never married. 
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house by sickness ; did not sec any person except his nearest 
relatives ; and, after this long and painful confinement, gladly 
welcomed death as a relief from bis sufferings. 

L843. — Charles Frederick Adams died in Boston, 
30 December, 1856, aged 32. lie was son of Charles Fred- 
erick and Caroline Hesselrigge (Walter) Adam- : was born in 
Boston, 3 February, 1824; and was fitted for college at the Bos- 
ton Latin School. On leaving college, he entered the Law School 
at Cambridge, where he remained one year ; and completed his 
legal studies in the office of Charles Greely Loring, of Boston 
(H.C. 1812). Having been admitted to the bar, he opened an 
office in Boston. The profession, however, being crowded, 
afforded but little encouragement for one of so modest and re- 
tiring habits as Mr. Adams ; and he, after a few years, deter- 
mined to seek a new field for practice, and, in 1849, sailed for 
California, via Cape Horn ; but, on the passage, he was attacked 
with pleurisy-fever, and arrived at the end of his long voyage 
in a feeble state of health. After remaining a few weeks in San 
Francisco, by the advice of friends he proceeded to the Sand- 
wich Islands ; but, on his arrival there, he found the accom- 
modations for invalids very scanty and undesirable, and he 
shortly afterwards sailed for China. But this voyage was of 
little benefit to him ; and he returned home after an absence of 
about thirteen months, and resumed the practice of his profes- 
sion in Boston. His health, however, was never fully restored ; 
and that insidious disease, consumption, closed his mortal career 
while in the prime of life. Exemplary in all the duties of private 
life, he showed a diligence, exactness, and fidelity in his profes- 
sion, which, had his life been prolonged, would have insured 
success, and the confidence and esteem of the community. He 
had a taste for archaeological and genealogical studies. An 
interesting paper, entitled "Notices of the Walter Family," fur- 
nished by him, was published in the " Historical and Genealogi- 
cal Register " for July, 1854. He died full of Christian hope 
and resignation, leaving many devoted friends to mourn his 
early death. 

1844. — Robert Lemmox died at Patuxent, Md., 24 Decern- 



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ber, 1856, aged 31. He was son of Richard and S. A. Lem- 
mon, and was born in Baltimore, 25 September, 1825. After 
leaving college, he studied law in the office of the late Judge 
Glenn, and practised his profession in Baltimore until 1848 ; 
when he relinquished it to pursue the business of an iron-master 
at the Patuxent Furnaces in Anne Arundel County, Md. He 
married, in the autumn of 1854, Fannie C, daughter of Henry 
A. Hall, of West River, Md. They had two children, — sons, 
— who, with their mother, survived him. 

1848. — John Edson died in New-York City, 29 April, 
1857, aged 29. He was born in Quincy, Mass., 27 June, 
1827. While very young, he removed with his father's family 
to Bridgewater, where he was fitted for college. In September, 
1844, he was admitted to the freshman class in Trinity College, 
Hartford. There he remained not quite five months ; and in 
February, 1845, entered Columbia College, in the city of New 
York. He was in this institution one year and a half, until the 
close of the sophomore year; and in August, 1846, he was 
admitted into the junior class at Cambridge. After graduating 
in 1848, he spent the remainder of that year and the following 
year in Troy, N.Y., in the study of engineering. He then 
went to the city of New York, where he studied architecture ; 
and afterwards established himself there as an architect, which 
profession he pursued until his death. 

1849. — Rev. Julius Walker Stuart died in Beaufort, 
S.C., 30 October, 1856, aged 28. He was born in Beaufort, 
30 September, 1828. After graduating, he went through a 
course of theological studies, preparatory to becoming an Epis- 
copal clergyman ; and was ordained in Beaufort, as assistant- 
pastor to the Rev. Mr. Pinckney, of Grace Church, in Charles- 
ton, S.C. : but his labors in his sacred calling were destined to 
be short. He left Charleston on a visit to Beaufort ; and, a 
few days after his arrival there, he was taken with yellow fever, 
of which he died, after an illness of seven days. The editor of 
the " Charleston Mercury," who was his classmate, in announ- 
cing his death, says, "He had just begun a career in the minis- 
try of the Episcopal church, which opened the highest prospects 

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154 NECROLOGY OP ALUMNI [1856-57. 

of future usefulness. Knowing him from his early boyhood, 
we can say that we have never known a human being more 
thoroughly blameless. Nor were his virtues of the negative 
sort; he was earnest, conscientious, firm in his convictions, and 
courageous in their maintenance and defence : but all his manly 
qualities were pervaded with a gentleness and unselfishness that 
never allowed them to give offence ; and we do not believe, that, 
in the whole course of his life, he ever made an enemy, or has 
left a solitary spark of human unkindness to be extinguished on 
his grave." 

1850. — William Lowell Stone died in Cambridge, 
Mass., 9 January, 1857, aged 27. He was son of William 
Fiske and Harriet (Brigham) Stone, and was born 24 June, 
1829, during the temporary residence of his mother at West- 
borough, Mass., while his parents were inhabitants of East 
Cambridge. He w r as prepared for college at the High School 
in East Cambridge, under Justin Allen Jacobs (H.C. 1839). 
He maintained, during the whole of his academic career, the 
same conscientious industry, and steady excellence of deport- 
ment, which distinguished him in his earlier years at home and 
at school ; and graduated with the esteem of his instructors, 
and an honorable rank in his class. During the latter part of 
his college course, symptoms of failing health began to show 
themselves, and it was with difficulty that he performed his 
commencement part. For nearly two years after he graduated, 
he was employed in the office of the register of deeds in 
Middlesex county. In the mean time, by the advice of his 
friends, he concluded to study law, not with a view to practice 
in the profession, but to enable him to pursue successfully, at 
the offices in East Cambridge, the business of examining land 
titles, — a business well suited to his quiet tastes and habits. 
Accordingly, he entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he 
took his degree in 1854. By this time, his health was so much 
impaired, that he abandoned his purpose ; and, confined mostly 
to his father's house, he experienced great mental depression and 
physical suffering, until he was relieved by death. He was a 
young man of great purity and delicacy of mind ', of unspotted 



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integrity and truthfulness ; of conscientious fidelity to the studies 
he pursued, and the work, whatever it might be, that he under- 
took : but he was one of those who are ill fitted for the rough 
conflicts of life, or for making their way to worldly distinction 
and worldly success. He had a morbid sensitiveness of tem- 
perament, an extreme humility and self-distrust, a constitutional 
shyness and reserve, that shrank from all publicity, and some- 
times made him unjust to himself. His abilities and merits 
could be known only by the few who had opportunity to pass 
beyond the barrier of his natural reserve, and to see the ster- 
ling excellence behind. 

1852. — John Sylvester Gardiner died in Boston, 
25 July, 1856, aged 25. He was son of William Howard 
Gardiner (H.C. 1816) and Caroline (Perkins) Gardiner, and 
was born in Boston, 5 October, 1833. After finishing his col- 
legiate course, he went to Europe, where he passed a year or 
two. After his return, before he had fixed upon any profession, 
he was suddenly cut down in the bloom of life, and his earthly 
career terminated by the inscrutable decree of an all-wise Prov- 
idence. 

1852. — Dr. James Seneca Hill died in Sacramento, 
Cal., 21 April, 1857, aged 32. He was son of George 
Washington and Sallie (Albee) Hill, and was born in Paw- 
tucket, Mass., 3 March, 1825. His father, who was the son 
of Samuel (commonly called Judge) Hill, was a native of 
Smithfield, R.I., and died about 1832. When about five years 
of age, he moved with his father (who was in feeble health) 
to his grandfather's in Smithfield. After his father's death, he, 
with his mother, went to Willimantic, Conn. ; his uncle being 
appointed his guardian. Soon afterwards, he went to school at 
Windham, Conn., and lived with James Wilson. There he 
remained three or four years, occasionally residing a while at 
Willimantic. Being then eleven or twelve years old, he went to 
Willimantic, residing with his uncle ; assisting him occasionally 
on his farm in summer, but most of the time attending school. 
About 1837, he went to Holliston Academy, then under the 
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afterwards, he went to the Colchester (Conn.) Academy one 
winter, where his mother then lived. He then went to Chaplin, 
Conn., to learn the trade of a carpenter. After working at the 
trade two years, he went to Northampton, Mass., whither his 
mother and guardian had removed. The following year, he 
built a small house for his mother. lie afterwards built several 
small houses, having two or more hired men under him ; always, 
after the first winter, attending the academy ;it Kasthampton. 
He also built four barns ; and, in 184G, assisted his elder broth- 
er, George A. Hill, in building the wood-work to a stone dam. 
Working very hard on the dam, worn down and fatigued, it 
occurred to him, one day, to go to college ; and, about the 1st 
of December, he entered Williston Seminary at Easthampton, 
where he was fitted, and entered the freshman class at Amherst 
College in 1848, and took the first prize there, as a speaker, 
in 1850. He remained in Amherst three years ; and, in the 
autumn of 1851, he left, and entered the senior class at Harvard 
College. He taught school, in his junior year, at East Doug- 
lass, and at Duxbury in his senior year. After graduating, 
he studied medicine at the Boylston Medical School in Boston ; 
and received his degree of M.D., 18 July, 1855. Shortly 
aftenvards, he was appointed physician to the state alms- 
house in Tewksbury, where he remained a year and a half; 
when he concluded to go to California, and left New York for 
that place on the 21st of January last. During his stay in 
Tewksbury, he had some twenty-five hundred patients under his 
charge, and performed many difficult surgical operations with 
great success. By his uniform kindness and gentlemanly bear- 
ing, he endeared himself to all. By nature, as well as by early 
education, he was eminently qualified to be a surgeon of the 
highest order ; and there is no doubt in the minds of those who 
knew him, that such would have been the case had his life been 
spared. AVhile at Tewksbury, many a poor creature had cause 
to bless him, not only for his medical and surgical skill, but 
also for his ingenious contrivances to alleviate their misery ; such 
as easy - chairs for those unable to walk ; padded crutches 
for the lame. Being no respecter of persons, he treated the 



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poor and unfortunate, whatever their color or country, with the 
same kind care and attention bestowed upon the more favored 
ones. He was a man of rare genius, and could make almost 
any thing, however complicated, to which he turned his atten- 
tion. Life-saving articles he was considerably interested in ; 
being the inventor of a life-boat, and also of a safety -lamp. 
He sometimes wrote poetry ; and a few of his compositions were 
set to music, and arranged for the piano-forte. His poetical 
writings, while in Amherst College, gave him a high rank 
among his fellow-students. Early in April, after his arrival in 
California, he was taken sick of typhoid fever at the residence 
of his brother in Sacramento ; and, after an illness of two weeks, 
he died. Thus, at the early age of thirty-two, when a new 
field of enterprise was open before him, with flattering pros- 
pects of success, he was cut off, far from the land of his birth, 
deeply lamented by his relatives and by his classmates, to whom 
he had endeared himself by his amiable disposition, his social 
habits, and his unblemished moral character. 

1852. — Edward Horatio Neal died at Newton Lower 
Falls, Mass., 24 August, 1856, aged 23. He was son of Ben- 
jamin and Eunice (Daniell) Neal, and was born at Newton, 
23 October, 1832. He was fitted for college at the private 
school of Mr. William Hathorne Brooks, of Boston (H.C. 
1827) ; going from Newton Falls, and returning daily in the 
cars, from February, 1846, till he entered college, at the begin- 
ning of the sophomore year, in 1849. He soon became a 
prominent and valued member of his class. While an under- 
graduate, he was not ambitious, but he was conscientious and 
diligent ; and it is a remarkable fact, that, during his whole 
collegiate course, he was not absent from one recitation. After 
graduation, he studied law at the Law School in Cambridge, 
where he received the degree of LL.B. in 1854. After leav- 
ing the Law School early in that year, he pursued his studies 
with his brother, George Benjamin Neal, of Charlestown (H.C. 
1846). He was distinguished from childhood for moral worth ; 
and, while a resident in Charlestown, connected himself with the 
Episcopal church in that place. In the autumn of 1854, in 



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consequence of ill health, he travelled in the Southern States, 
visiting New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, and other places, 
and returned the following summer; after which he resided at 
Newton Lower Falls until his death. 

1*52. — George Walter Norbis died in Mobile, Ala., 
21 January, 1857, aged 25. lie was son of Shepherd Haynes 
Norris, then of Boston, but now a resident of Milwaukie, Wis. ; 
was born in Boston, 21 November, 1831 ; pursued his studies, 
preparatory to his admission into college, at the Boston Latin 
School. Immediately after graduating, he went to New York, 
and pursued the study of law one year in the office of John 
Cleveland, an eminent attorney of that city ; another year in 
the office of N. F. Waring, counsellor to the corporation of the 
city of Brooklyn ; and there he began the practice of his profes- 
sion. Soon afterwards, however, he opened an office, with 
William Henry Waring (H.C. 1852), in the city of New 
York. In October, 1855, he was seized with hemorrhage of 
the lungs, an hereditary disease ; and, from that time, fell away 
rapidly in consumption. In the summer of 1856, he removed 
to Milwaukie to reside, in hopes that a change of climate might 
save him ; but his physicians soon discovered that his case was 
hopeless, and, as soon as cold weather came, sent him to Mo- 
bile, where he died. He possessed a mind of quick conception, 
and with talents which, had his life been spared to a more 
mature age, would have enabled him to take an elevated rank 
in his profession. Of a mild, amiable, and social disposition, 
lie was greatly beloved by his classmates and friends ; and his 
premature death is deeply deplored by his relatives and the 
community in which he was known. 

1853. — William Henry Whittemore died in Cambridge, 
Mass., 9 February, 1857, aged 23. He was son of Thomas 
Jefferson and Susanna Frances (Boardman) Whittemore ; was 
born in Boston, 10 October, 1833 ; and moved with his father's 
family to Cambridge in July, 1837. In 1842, he entered the 
Flopkins Classical School in Cambridge, under Edmund Burke 
Whitman (H.C. 1838) ; and remained there seven years, until 
he entered the freshman class in 1849. In August, 1851, he 



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was on board the steamer " Governor " when she struck a rock 
near Owl's Head in Maine, and the lives of the passengers were 
imperilled. Part of the winter vacation of 1851—2 he spent in 
Washington. In his senior year, his eyesight began to fail ; 
and, instead of studying a profession as he had proposed, he made 
arrangements to engage in mercantile business. His sight not 
improving, in the September after graduating, he sailed for Rio 
Janeiro, and returned in March of the following year. In the 
summer of 1854, he had an attack of hemorrhage, which was 
followed by two or three others about a year afterwards. A 
cough followed ; and he finally died, at the residence of his 
father, greatly lamented by his class-mates, relatives, and 
friends. 

1855. — Warren Brooks died in Townsend, Mass., 4 
February, 1857, aged 25. He was son of Samuel and Sarah 
(Campbell) Brooks, and was born in Townsend, 15 February, 
1831. He worked on his father's farm until 1850; but, hav- 
ing always had a desire to obtain a liberal education, in May of 
that year he entered the academy of New Ipswich, N.H., to 
prepare for college. After staying there two terms, he left New 
Ipswich in the autumn, and entered Meriden Academy in Con- 
necticut, where he remained six months, and then entered Yale 
College. He remained at Yale two years ; when, having, as he 
states in the class-book, a desire to study the modern languages, 
he left New Haven, and entered the junior class at Harvard in 
1853. While at Yale, he gained a prize, during the freshman 
year, for Greek composition. He supported himself almost 
entirely, while in college, by teaching school in the winter vaca- 
tions ; working on a farm and at the coopering business in the 
summer. In the September following his graduation, he 
entered the Theological Seminary at Andover : but his health 
failing, obliged him, in 1856, to relinquish his studies ; and, 
leaving the seminary, he returned to his home in Townsend. 
He himself supposed that the consumption of which he died 
was induced by an attack of typhoid fever in August, 1856 ; 
but his physicians thought it might be traced further back. He 
was even told, while studying at Cambridge, that his lungs were 



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diseased : but his desire to complete his theological studies made 
him disregard medical advice. His strength failed so gradually, 
that he was not aware of his near approach to death until a few 
hours before his departure. His whole scholastic career was 
embarrassed by pecuniary troubles. "While few, perhaps, of his 
classmates knew much of his personal history or his pecuniary 
difficulties, no one could help respecting him as an honest, inde- 
pendent man, who met his duties resolutely, and did his best to 
be faithful to them. His whole bearing showed a man of fine 
principle, and would have commanded the confidence even of a 
stranger. 



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1786. — Rev. Jacob Norton died in Billerica, Mass., 
17 January, 1858, aged 93. He was son of Samuel Norton, 
and was born in Abington, Mass., 12 February, 1764. He was 
prepared for college partly at Hingham Academy, and partly by 
Rev. James Briggs, of Cummington, Mass. (Y.C. 1775). He 
held a high rank as a scholar in his class, and graduated with 
distinction. At the time of his death, he was the oldest surviv- 
ing graduate of Harvard College. After passing a brief time 
in the study of divinity under the instruction of Rev. Perez 
Fobes, of Raynham (H.C. 1762), ne was ordained over the 
Congregational church in Weymouth, Mass., 10 October, 1787 ; 
where he continued his pastoral labors until 4 July, 1824, when 
he resigned his charge, and a few years afterwards removed to 
Billerica, where he resided during the remainder of his long life. 
He was much esteemed as a preacher, and was particularly 
known as a polemical writer. The following are his principal 
publications : — 

1. Sermon preached in "Weymouth, and in several other places in 
the vicinity, illustrating the Duty of Impenitent Sinners. 8vo. Bos- 
ton, 1803. 2. The Will of God respecting the Salvation of all Men ; 
illustrated. A Sermon at "Weymouth, 18 December, 1808. 8vo. 
Boston, 1809. 3. Remarks on an Address from the Berean Society 
of Universalists in Boston to the Congregation of the First Church in 
"Weymouth, in Answer to a Sermon delivered there 18 December, 
1808, &c. 8vo. Boston, 1809. 4. Sermon before the Massachu- 
setts Missionary Society, May 29, 1810. 8vo. Boston, 1810. 
5. Discourse at Weymouth, 3 February, 1811, on the Death of his 
Wife. 8vo. Boston, 1811. 6. Seasonable and Candid Thoughts on 
Human Creeds, or Articles of Faith, as Religious Tests, connected 
with an Humble Attempt to ascertain the true Character of Jesus 

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Christ, &c, by an Orthodox Clergyman of Massachusetts. 8vo. 
Boston, 1813. [Published anonymously.] 7. Things Bel in a Proper 
Light ; in Answer to a Letter from T. A. to a Friend, by an Ortho- 
dox Clergyman of Massachusetts. 8vo. Boston, 1814. [Published 
anonymously.] 8. Things as they are ; or, Trinitarianiam Devel- 
oped ; in Answer to a Letter of the Rev. Daniel Thomas, of Ahington ; 
with Strictures on the .Sentiments of the late Rev. Dr. Hopkins. 
8vo. Boston, 1815. 9. The same. Second Part. In Reply to a 
Letter written in February, 1815, to the Rev. Jacob Norton, by 
Daniel Thomas. 8vo. Boston, 1815. 10. "A Short and Easy 
Method" with a late Writer, arrogating to himself the Title of "Or- 
thodox Clergyman," in a Letter to a young Gentleman just entered 
on a Course of Theological Studies, with a View to the Christian 
Ministry. By an Aged Clergyman of Massachusetts. 8vo. Bos- 
ton, 1815. 11. Sermon at the Interment of Hon. Cotton Tufts. 8vo. 
Boston, 1816. 12. A Candid and Conciliatory Review of the late 
Correspondence of the Rev. Dr. Worcester with the Rev. W. E. 
Chanuing on the Subject of Unitarianism. By a Serious Inquirer. 
8vo. Boston, 1817. [Published anonymously.] 13. An Humble 
Attempt to ascertain the Scripture Doctrine of the Father, Son, and 
Holy Spirit. In Three Discourses. To which is added " The Awa- 
kener," delivered in the Months of January and February, 1819, be- 
fore the First Religious Society in Weymouth. 8vo. Boston, 1819. 
14. Dispassionate Thoughts on the Subjects and Mode of Christian 
Baptism. 8vo. Boston, 1821. 15. The Duty of Religious Tolera- 
tion, Mutual Sympathy, and Fellowship, among different Denomina- 
tions, exhibited in a Sermon delivered in the South Meeting-house in 
Weymouth, 8 November, 1821, on a peculiarly interesting and im- 
portant Occasion. 8vo. Boston, 1822. 16. Valedictory Discourse 
delivered before the First Religious Society in Weymouth, in Two 
Parts, on the morning and afternoon of Lord's Day, July 4, 1824. 
8vo. Boston, 1824. 17. " Dialogue between a Minister and a Par- 
ishioner on the Trinity," begun in the " Boston Observer" in 1835, 
and continued for several months in that paper and the " Christian 
Register." 

Mr. Xoi'ton married, 11 February, 1789, Elizabeth Crunch, 
the eldest daughter of Hon. Richard Cranch, of Braintree (now 
Quincy) ; sister of the late Judge William Cranch (H.C. 1787), 
of Washington, D.C. ; and niece of the wife of President John 
Adams ; by whom he had five sons and three daughters. His 



1857-58.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 163 

wife died 25 January, 1811, aged 46. He was married again, 
by Rev. Henry 'Cumings, D.D., 7 May, 1813, to Hannah 
Bowers, daughter of Josiah Bovvers, of Billerica. She died 
26 March, 1842, aged 76 years. He left two daughters, eleven 
grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren. He outlived 
five sons and one daughter. Two of his sons, Richard Cranch 
Norton and William Smith Norton, graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege in 1808 and 1812 respectively. He retained his mental 
and physical powers to a remarkable degree until past the age 
of ninety. For the last year or two of his life, he spent most 
of his time during the day reading, without glasses, which he 
never used, with the exception of a short time, and then laid 
them aside as useless. 

1791. — Hon. Charles Porter Phelps died in Hadley, 
Mass., 22 December, 1857, aged 85. He was son of Charles 
and Elizabeth (Porter) Phelps, and was born in Hadley, 
8 August, 1772. His name, originally, was Moses Porter 
Phelps ; which was changed by act of the legislature, 15 Febru- 
ary, 1796. He was fitted for college by Rev. Joseph Lyman, 
D.D., of Hatfield, Mass. (Y.C. 1767), and graduated with 
high honors ; the salutatory oration in Latin having been as- 
signed to him at Commencement. Having selected the profes- 
sion of the law, he pursued his legal studies under the instruction 
of Hon. Theophilus Parsons, of Newburyport (H.C. 1769). 
On his admission to the bar in 1795, he established himself 
in Boston, where he resided twenty-two years, and attained a 
high rank in his profession. In 1816, he was chosen a repre- 
sentative from Boston to the state legislature. In 1816 and 
1817, he was commander of the celebrated company of cavalry, 
well remembered by the elder portion of this community as 
the Hussars ; being the immediate successor in command to the 
Hon. Josiah Quincy. This company was probably the most 
splendid one that ever existed in this state. Every member of 
it was required to own the horse upon which he appeared in 
parade ; and the expense of equipment to each man, including 
his horse, was not less than fifteen hundred dollars. The com- 
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President Monroe to Boston in June, 1 S 1 7 ; and was soon 
afterwards disbanded. In 1816, Mr. Phelps was appointed 

cashier of the Massachusetts Bank in Boston. This office he 
resigned the following year, when lie returned to his native 
place, Hadley, where he passed the remainder of his long life, 
beloved and respected by the community, who manifested their 
regard for him by repeatedly electing him to offices of honor 
and trust. He represented the town of Hadley in the state 
legislature in 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1830, and 1832; and, 
in 1828, he was elected senator from the district of Hampshire. 
There were two religious societies in Hadley, and it sometimes 
happened that they could not agree upon a candidate for repre- 
sentative. When this was the case, so popular was Mr. Phelps, 
that they would compromise the matter by electing him. When, 
therefore, the legislature assembled, and Mr. Phelps appeared 
as the representative from Hadley t it was at once said that 
there had been a quarrel between the societies about the choice 
of a person to represent the town. Mr. Phelps married, in 
January, 1800, Sarah Davenport Parsons, daughter of Moses 
Parsons, of Haverhill, Mass. (H.C. 1765). She died October, 
1817 ; and he married, November, 1820, Charlotte Parsons, 
daughter of Hon. Theophilus Parsons. His second wife died 
in July, 1830. In 1833, he married, for his third wife, Mrs. 
Elizabeth C. Judkins, who survived him. He had fourteen 
children, of whom ten survived him. 

1792. — Henderson Inches died in Boston, 9 September, 
1857, aged 83. He was son of Henderson and Elizabeth 
(Brimmer) Inches, and was born in Boston, 7 February, 1774. 
He was fitted for college at Andover Academy. Soon after 
graduating, he entered the counting-house of Hon. Thomas 
Russell, of Boston, where he received his mercantile education ; 
and, on the termination of his apprenticeship, he began business 
in Boston, at No. 47, Long Wharf, where he remained several 
years. After the death of Mr. Russell, he purchased Russell's 
(now known as Russia) Wharf; whither he removed, and where 
he retained an office until his decease. He married. Septem- 
ber, 1802, Miss Susan Brimmer, daughter of Martin Brimmer, 



1857-58.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 165 

Esq., of Boston. They had ten children, of whom seven are 
now living. Mrs. Inches died 21 September, 1823, aged 40 
years. Mr. Inches was long and favorably known as an 
honorable and upright merchant. He was, in every sense, a 
gentleman : intelligent, affable, of a genial, social disposition, 
he was a welcome guest wherever he went ; beloved at home 
as a kind husband and affectionate father, and respected by the 
community as an estimable and valued citizen. 

1796. — Rev. Luther Weight died in Woburn, Mass., 
21 June, 1858, aged 88. He was son of Samuel and Rachel 
Wright, and was born in Acton, Mass., 19 April, 1770. As 
he was afflicted with severe lameness in 1781, which became 
permanent, and rendered him incapable of manual labor, he was 
designed for college by his parents, as well as by his own incli- 
nation. He pursued his preparatory studies partly at New Ips- 
wich, N. H., under the instruction of John Hubbard (D.C. 
1785), the preceptor of the academy in that town, and partly 
under the tuition of Rev. Moses Adams, of Acton (H.C. 1771). 

After leaving college, he taught school five months in Water- 
ed o " o 

town, and three months in Cambridge, near the college, studying 
divinity at the same time ; and, a few months after relinquishing 
those schools, he placed himself under the instruction of Rev. 
David Tappan (H.C. 1771), professor of theology in Harvard 
College. He was licensed to preach by the Marlborough Asso- 
ciation, April, 1797. The first society to which he preached 
as a candidate for settlement was at Medway, where he Avas 
ordained 13 June, 1798 ; and over which he continued his 
pastoral labors for nearly eighteen years, on a salary of eighty 
pounds per annum, and the use of a wood-lot from which he 
obtained his wood. By frequent and kind presents from his 
people, and by taking into his family lads and youth from Bos- 
ton, and other towns in this and other states, to board, and fit 
for college, and to study English branches, he was enabled to 
supply the deficiency of his salary, and to accumulate something 
for his support in the decline of life. In September, 1815, he 
asked and received a dismission from his church and society. 
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and received invitations to settle in Dunstable, and the upper 
parish in Beverly, Mass. ; in Raymond, N.H. : and Barrington, 
R.I. At the last-named place, lie accepted the call , and was 
installed as their pastor, 17 January, 1*17, over a feeble church 

and parish, and on feeble support. As the society was small, 
its means tor competent support scanty, and unhappy divisions 
existed in the church and society, he expected his mission would 
be short ; and so it proved. After a residence of about four and 
a half years, he requested a dismission. His request was granted, 
5 July, 1821. In May, 1825, he was installed over the church 
in Tiverton, R.I., where he continued until 24 May, 1828, 
when he was dismissed ; and, his health being feeble, he felt it 
his duty not to resettle again in the ministry. He, however, 
continued to preach in different places, — about six months in 
Dartmouth, Mass. ; three years in Carver ; one year in Bille- 
rica ; seven months in South Weymouth ; several weeks in 
Plymouth, Middleborough, and Lynnfield ; besides occasionally 
in a few other places for short periods. About eight years be- 
fore his death, he relinquished his clerical labors entirely, and 
resided in Woburn. His only publications were (1) A Ser- 
mon, occasioned by the Death of Capt. Cyrus Bullard, preached 
25 May, 1806. 8vo. Dedham, April, 1807. (2) A Sermon 
delivered at Medway, 4 November, 1813, on the Close of a Cen- 
tury since the Incorporation of the Town. 8vo. Dedham, 1814. 
He married, 23 December, 1799, Anna Bridge, second daughter 
of Rev. Josiah Bridge (H.C. 1758), of East Sudbury, now 
Way land ; but had no children. His wife survived him. By 
prudence and good management he accumulated considerable 
property, which he bequeathed, after the death of his widow, 
to the Congregational Board of Publication, the Massachusetts 
Home-Missionary Society, the American Missionary Association, 
and the New-England Female Medical College. 

1797. — Hon. James Riciiaudsox died in Dedham. Mass., 
7 June, 1858, aged 86. He was son of James and Hannah 
(Clapp) Richardson, and was born in Medfield, Mass., 6 Octo- 
ber, 1771. He was fitted for college by Rev. Thomas Prentiss, 
D.D., of Medfield (H.C. 1766). He held a high rank in his 



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class as a scholar, and graduated with distinction. He pursued 
his professional studies with the Hon. Fisher Ames, of Dedham 
(H.C. 1774) ; was admitted to the bar in the autumn of 1800 ; 
and began the practice of the law in Dedham, where he continued 
it until within a few years of his decease. He was for some 
time a law-partner with Mr. Ames, and was ever a great favorite 
of that eminent statesman. He attained to a high rank as a 
lawyer ; and, for many years, was one of the leading members 
of the bar in Norfolk county. His connection with Mr. Ames 
was dissolved, by the death of the latter, the 4th of July, 1808. 
He was but little in public life ; for, being in political principles 
an ultra -federalist, a majority of the voters of the town, as 
well as of the county, in which he resided, were of opposite 
politics. These principles he retained through life, although he 
acted with new parties as new times demanded. He was elected 
a senator in the state legislature in 1813 ; was a member of the 
convention, in 1820, for revising the state constitution ; and was 
a member of the executive -council in 1834 and 1835. He 
was also a master-in-chancery, and a trial-justice, in connection 
with his professional practice. He was much interested in mea- 
sures designed for public improvement, such as the construction 
of turnpikes and the establishment of manufactures. He was at 
one time a considerable owner in manufactories, although he 
never abandoned the practice of his profession. He was one 
of the projectors of the Dedham Bank, and was president of 
the Norfolk Mutual Fire-insurance Company from 1833 until 
April, 1857. He delivered a poem before the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society, at Cambridge ; a Fourth-of-July oration, at Dedham, 
in 1808, being the day of the death of Fisher Ames, to which 
event the oration contains an allusion ; and an address before 
the Norfolk bar, at their request, in 1837, upon the profession 
and practice of the law. All these were printed. As a lawyer, 
he had a clear and discriminating judgment, and an ample 
knowledge of legal principles derived from the very fountains 
of jurisprudence. He was president of the Norfolk bar, and 
held that position at the time of his death. He was a man of 
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of early English poetry; of elevated views of lit'*' and character, 
especially as applicable to his own profession. He married, 
December, 1813, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Richards, 
of Dedham ; by whom he had three children, two sons and one 
daughter. One son died in infancyin L820. His other children 
survive him. The son graduated at Harvard College in ]*'M. 
His wile died October, 1820. His peculiarly tender attachment 
to her prevented his ever forming a second marriage connection, 
although his children were young. Indeed, for many years 
after her death, the very mention of her name affected him even 
to tears. 

1798. — Dr. Andrew Croswell died in Mercer, Me., 
4 June, 1858, aged 80. He was son of Andrew and Sarah 
(Palmer) Croswell, and was born in Plymouth, Mass., 9 April, 
1778. When in college, he was remarked for his amiable dis- 
position, and, withal, for his diffidence and retired habits ; and he 
seldom mingled in the pastimes of his classmates. He studied 
medicine under the instruction of Dr. Zaccheus Bartlett, of Ply- 
mouth (H.C. 1789). On completing his professional studies, 
he settled as a physician in the town of Fayette, Me. ; and 
subsequently removed to Mercer, which was afterwards his per- 
manent residence. He acquired an extensive practice ; and, by 
his skill and success, he gained the entire confidence not only of 
the people of the town in which he resided, but of all the neigh- 
boring towns ; and was frequently called to go long distances for 
consultation in critical cases. He was a man of the kindest 
feelings ; and to the indigent he was ever prompt to render his 
best services, without expectation of reward other than the 
consciousness of having relieved, as far as was in his power, 
the sufferings of a fellow-being. He was justly entitled to the 
appellation the apostle bestowed upon St. Luke ; namely, 
" the beloved physician." 

He married Susan Church, of Farmington, and had six 
children, — four sons and two daughters. His widow, and all 
his children, excepting one daughter, survived him. He was a 
kind and affectionate husband and father, greatly beloved by his 
family, and respected by all his acquaintances. 



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1798. — Dr. Henry Gardner died in Boston, 19 June, 
1858, aged 78. He was son of Henry and Hannah (Clap) 
Gardner, and was born in the old Province-House, in Boston, 
2 August, 1779. His father, Henry Gardner (H.C. 1750), 
was born in Stow, Mass., 14 November, 1731. He was a 
member of the Middlesex Convention in 1774 ; also of the 
Provincial Congress, which met 7 October, 1774, and in Feb- 
ruary and May, 1775. He was judge of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas for Middlesex. In December, 1774, he was chosen 
first state treasurer; when he removed to Boston, and occupied 
the Province-House, where were vaults for the safe keeping of 
the provincial revenues. He held this office until his death. 
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, and had the character of a learned man. He was a 
sincere patriot, and rendered very important service to the pro- 
vince by his diligence and fidelity. He died 8 October, 1782, 
aged 50. Dr. Gardner's grandfather, Rev. John Gardner 
(H.C. 1715), was born in Charlestown, Mass., 22 July, 1695 ; 
was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Stow, 
26 November, 1718; and died 10 January, 1775, aged 79. 
Dr. Gardner was fitted for college in Andover, Mass. He 
studied medicine with Dr. John Warren, of Boston, (H.C. 
1771), who, at the death of Dr. Gardner's father, had been 
appointed his guardian ; and received his first medical degree in 
1801, but never practised. According to the laws of primogeni- 
ture then existing, he, being the eldest son, inherited a double 
portion of his father's estate ; and he was thus placed above the 
necessity of engaging in any stated business. He employed 
himself in the care of his property, which increased under 
his judicious management. He resided many years in Dor- 
chester, Mass., where he was highly esteemed by the people of 
that ancient town, who elected him a representative to the legis- 
lature in 1822, 1823, and 1824. He was chosen a senator 
from Norfolk District in 1825, 1826, and 1827. He was also, 
in 1820, a member from Dorchester of the convention for revis- 
ing the constitution of the state. He was, for a number of years, 
one of the trustees of the State Lunatic-Hospital at Worcester. 

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Of late years, he declined all public offices, preferring the quiet of 
private life. lie was a gentleman of strict integrity, and was 
highly respected in the community. He married, first, 17 .May, 
L803, Joanna Bird Everett, daughter of Etev. Moses Everett, of 
Dorchester (H.C. 1771) : she died 7 February, 1807, leaving 
one daughter, who is now the wife of Daniel Denny, Esq., of 
Boston. He married, second, 20 March, 1810, Clarissa II<>1- 
Lrook, daughter of Dr. Amos Ilolbrook, of Milton, Mass. ; by 
whom he had three children, — two daughters and a son; of 
whom only the son, Hon. Henry Joseph Gardner, late gov- 
ernor of Massachusetts, is living. His second wife survived 
him. 

1799. — Hon. JosErn Dane died in Kennebunk, Me., 
1 May, 1858, aged 79. He was son of John and Jemima 
(Fellows) Dane, and was born in Beverly, Mass., 25 October, 
1778. He w r as a descendant of John Dane, who emigrated 
from England, and settled in Ipswich, Mass., about the year 
1648. Both his parents were natives of Ipswich. They died 
in Beverly, where they lived : the father, 5 March, 1829, in his 
eightieth year; and the mother, April, 1827, aged 76 years. 
Mr. Dane was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Ando- 
ver, and graduated with the second honors of his class. After 
leaving college, he pursued his legal studies in the office and 
under the instruction of his uncle, Hon. Nathan Dane, of 
Beverly (H.C. 1778) ; and, having completed his term of study, 
he was admitted to the bar in Essex county in July, 1802. 
He was thoroughly prepared for usefulness and distinction in the 
honorable profession he had chosen. Besides the advantages to 
be derived from the large experience, exact and varied learning, 
and practical good sense, of his immediate instructor, he could 
not fail to be benefited by the intimate association of the latter 
with Prescott, Jackson, Putnam, and Story, who were then 
beginning to be distinguished for professional excellence, and 
became the ornaments of the bar and the bench. After his 
admission to the bar, Mr. Dane immediately began the practice 
of law in Kennebunk, at that time a part of the town of A Veils ; 
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upright and safe counsellor. He continued in active practice in 
the profession until 1837, when he retired. As a practitioner, 
he was , courteous, faithful, and honest; and sought, by the 
influence of his own example, to elevate the character of the pro- 
fession for integrity and moral excellence. " He concerned 
himself with the beginnings of controversies, not to inflame, but 
to extinguish them. He felt that he owed a duty to the com- 
munity in which he lived, and whose peace he was bound to 
preserve. He was eminently a peacemaker, a composer of dis- 
sensions, and constantly aimed to prevent the mischiefs which 
follow in the train of litigation*' To him may very justly be 
applied the language used in regard to another : " That he cast 
honor upon his honorable profession, and sought dignity, not 
from the ermine or the mace, but from a straight path and a 
spotless life." 

He was the last survivor of those who were members of the 
bar of York when he began practice ; among whom were 
the honored names of Mellen, King, Holmes, Hubbard, and 
"Wallingford. He was often selected by his fellow-citizens for 
places of trust and responsibility. In 1816, he was chosen one 
of the delegates from the town of Wells to the Brunswick con- 
vention for forming a constitution for Maine, which then failed 
to accomplish its object ; the popular majority required to author- 
ize it not having been obtained. In 1818, he was elected by the 
legislature of Massachusetts one of the executive-council ; but 
declined to accept the office, on account of professional engage- 
ments. In 1819, he was a member of the convention which 
framed the constitution of Maine, and took an active part in its 
proceedings and deliberations ; and was one of the committee 
which draughted the constitution, Mr. Holmes being chairman. 
Associated with him in this important committee, among others, 
were Chief-Justice Whitman, Generals Wingate and Chandler, 
Judges Bridge, Dana, and Parris. On the admission of Maine 
into the Union in 1820, he was elected a member of the sixteenth 
Congress, from the first district, to complete the unexpired term 
made vacant by the election of Mr. Holmes to the Senate, and 
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was in the state legislature, as a member of the House, in the 
years 1824, 1825, 1832, 1833, 1839, and 1840; and was 
a member of the Senate in 1*2!>. In 1841, he was elected a 
member of the executive-council of Maine, but declined to 

accept the office. lie fulfilled the duties of the various and 
important public trusts confided to him with acknowledged abil- 
ity, great singleness of purpose, and with an earnest, patriotic 
desire to advance the public interest. After his retirement from 
the bar and from public duties, he always interested himself 
deeply in whatever was calculated to promote the welfare of the 
community. Few men have lived so long, and enjoyed so 
largely and uniformly the confidence, respect, and esteem of 
their fellow-citizens. 

He married, October, 1808, Mary Clark, daughter of 
Hon. Jonas Clark, of Kennebunk, and grand-daughter of the 
Rev. Jonas Clark, of Lexington, Mass. (H.C. 1752) ; a lady 
of great excellence of character, who survived him. He had 
three children, two sons and a daughter. The sons survived 
him, prominent citizens of the county of York, — Hon. Na- 
than Dane, of Alfred; and Joseph Dane, jun., of Kennebunk. 
He was happy in his domestic and social relations ; kind, 
affectionate, and benevolent. His death was deeply lamented by 
his neighbors and friends, Avho grieved most of all that they 
should see his face no more. He had usually enjoyed good 
health, the "ripe fruit of temperance, self-control, and a virtuous 
life," until seized by the malady which terminated his earthly 
existence. He sustained the suffering of his long and painful 
illness with characteristic cheerfulness and equanimity, and with 
Christian resignation ; and at last calmly and serenely yielded 
up his life in the exercise of a reasonable religious faith and a 
Christian hope. 

1800. — Dr. Samuel Weed died in Portland, Me., 24 No- 
vember, 1857, aged 83. He was born in Amesbury, Mass., 
10 June, 1774. His father, Ephraim Weed, was a respectable 
farmer. He worked on his father's farm until he was 17 years 
old ; when he was sent to Exeter Academy, Avhere he remained 
nearly a year. The next four years he spent alternately keeping 



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school in Amesbury *md Bradford in winter, and working on the 
farm in summer. Being now desirous of obtaining a liberal 
education, he went to Atkinson Academy, then under the charge 
of Stephen Peabody (H.C. 1769), and prepared himself for col- 
lege. He entered college in 1796, the oldest member of his class. 
A distinguished literary gentleman, who was long intimately 
acquainted with him, gives the following particulars of his subse- 
quent life : "It was one of the college customs of that day, for 
the freshmen, on the entry of every class, to be initiated into 
their new life by a wrestling-match. The sophomores chal- 
lenged the new-comers to a trial of strength in this ancient and 
classical exercise. The senior class was the umpire, and the 
victors were treated to a supper on their invitation. In the con- 
test in 1796, after a hard and manly struggle, the freshmen 
came oft' victorious, leaving three of their champions ready to 
continue the contest : of these, Weed was one. The Monday 
after, the juniors, not easy under this defeat, challenged the 
freshmen to a new contest with them. This was accepted, and 
Weed was the first to enter the list : he threw successively six 
of the juniors, the first of whom was the late Judge Fay, of 
Cambridge. Reeking with perspiration, and nearly exhausted, 
he was required to renew the struggle with a fresh competitor : 
in this struggle he was unfortunately overcome ; the victor being 
Ebenezer Thatcher, then of Cambridge, but whose manhood 
and age were spent in Maine, in the discharge of many 
important offices, and who died in 1841. After leaving 
college, Mr. Weed took charge of the academy at Framing- 
ham, where he continued four years; when he was invited to 
unite with his classmate, Rufus Hosmer, in conducting a high- 
school in Medford. In this occupation he remained three years. 
He then began in earnest the study of his profession under the 
wise and paternal direction of Dr. John Brooks, afterwards gov- 
ernor of the commonwealth ; the brave and gallant soldier, the 
skilful physician, the prudent statesman, and the accomplished 
gentleman. Here he saw the best practice, and improved his 
admirable opportunities to acquire an accurate knowledge of his 
profession. At the same time, he had the rare privilege of seeing 



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and enjoying the company of many of the most distinguished 
men of the old commonwealth, as Gore, Dexter, Bigelow, &c. ; 
and of meeting the old physicians, Danfbrth, Dexter, Lloyd, 
Rand, the cider Warren, &c, who came to Dr. Brooks for con- 
sultation or as friendly visitors. Here, too, he met the eccentric 
and gifted Dr. Osgood, pastor of the church in Medford, then 
in the vigor of his intellect and of his peculiarities. From these 
rich and varied stores of instruction, his mind was imbued with 
useful knowledge, and pleasant and instructive anecdote, which 
his memory laid up for the entertainment of his friends and 
companions through the long period of his remaining life. Dr. 
Weed went to Portland, and entered on the practice of his pro- 
fession, in 1810. The principal physicians then there were Dr. 
Coffin, who had been forty-four years in the practice, and stood 
at the head of the profession, both in medicine and surgery ; 
Drs. Erving, Thomas, Cummings, Harding, Kittridge, and Mor- 
rill. A very healthy town, with a population of only seven 
thousand, and pre-occupied with such a number of the faculty, 
did not afford a very cheering prospect to a new aspirant, 
especially when the charge for a medical visit, including medi- 
cine, was only fifty cents. At that time, it was the custom for 
physicians to prepare the medicines which they prescribed : 
patients were unwilling to go to the apothecary ; and articles 
obtained there w:ere not always to be relied on. It happened, 
fortunately for Dr. Weed, that Dr. Erving, that good Samari- 
tan, and a most excellent man, soon after this moved to Bos- 
ton. Two years before Dr. Weed came, Dr. Kinsman, one of 
the most learned and skilful practitioners who had ever pursued 
his vocation in Portland, had died ; so that Dr. Weed was en- 
abled early to enter upon a remunerating practice. He was 
quite successful in securing a goodly number of first-class 
patients, which he ever retained, and their families after them, 
by a calm judgment, a good knowledge of his profession, and a 
uniform gentlemanly deportment. Never was a physician fur- 
ther removed than he from cant and quackery, to which ignorant 
practitioners often resort to gain business and popularity. He 
gained the confidence of his patients, and secured their affection, 



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by a, safe and judicious application of remedies, by courteous 
deportment, and strict attention to the wants of the sick-chamber. 
His great caution sometimes gave him the appearance of doubt 
and hesitation : but he thought ic better to be slow than to be 
wrong ; that it was better to assist nature, than to prostrate it by 
hasty and violent applications. The estimation in which he was 
held by his numerous friends, many of whom were children of 
parents who had enjoyed the benefit of his earlier services, was 
manifested in a manner most gratifying to both parties. In De- 
cember, 1852, Dr. Weed fell upon the ice, and broke his hip- 
joint ; a severe misfortune, which disabled him from future 
practice. His friends, believing that, deprived of his usual re- 
sources, he must be straitened in his means of support, came 
cheerfully forward, and contributed to procure for him an annu- 
ity of five hundred dollars a year during his life. This at once 
relieved his anxiety, and made him comfortable for the remainder 
of his days. In 1816, Dr. Weed married Maria Condy, of 
Medford, an amiable and accomplished lady, whose death in 
1835 was a deep and lasting sorrow, depriving him of a wise 
counsellor, an admirable companion, and an unfailing friend. 
Her grandfather, Rev. Jeremiah Condy (H.C. 1726), was a 
Baptist clergyman in Boston ; predecessor, in the First Baptist 
Church, of the eloquent Stillman. By her he had three sons ; 
of whom the only survivor is Edward Condy, of Boston. From 
his earliest life, Dr. Weed was an example of a true philosophi- 
cal and religious moderation. His whole conduct was regulated 
by strict principle. He was never known to deviate from the 
paths of rectitude and honor : he knew no guile, and was never 
guilty of detraction. He had entire control over himself, and 
so was able to apply to useful purposes the whole vigor of his 
powers. As a physician, he was not rapid in his perceptions, 
nor fertile in expedients ; but by great caution, sound judgment, 
and natural experience, he arrived at just conclusions in the 
diagnosis of disease. By a course so uniform and so worthy, 
he conferred dignity on his honorable profession, and grace and 
beauty on Ins daily life." 

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176 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [18,37 58. 

wich, R.I., 21 December, L857, aged 74. He was son of 
David Greene (II. C. 1768), and was born in Norwich, Conn., 
."•July, 1783; but, when quite young, removed with his father's 
family to Boston, where lie passed a great portion of his life. 
His mother's name was Rebecca Rose; and his father married 
her in the island of Antigua, of which she was a native. She 
died at the age of forty, leaving eight children. Mr. Greene 
was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, where he won 
a Franklin medal for his superior scholarship. On leaving col- 
lege, he entered his father's counting-room for the purpose of 
preparing himself for the mercantile profession, in which his 
father had long held a prominent rank. In 1805 or 1806, he 
went to England, where he remained a few months, when 
he returned; and on the 7th of December, 1806, he was married 
to Esther Ward Bowen, daughter of Hon. Pardon Bo wen, of 
Providence, R.I., and settled in New York. She died in March, 
1808, leaving no children. Mr. Greene shortly afterwards sailed 
for Europe; visited many ports in the Mediterranean, and went 
as far as Odessa, in the Black Sea, in the ship "Calumet," 
which was the first American vessel that visited that port, and, 
it is believed, was the first that ever entered the Black Sea. 
He remained in Europe five years ; during which time he 
acquired a thorough knowledge of the French language, which 
he spoke as fluently as lie did his native tongue. He returned 
in 1813; and, on the 27th of September of that year, he was 
married to Frances Bowen, a sister of his former wife. He then 
established himself in Boston as a merchant ; but, meeting with 
reverses, he relinquished the mercantile profession, and engaged 
in the business of teaching, for which he was by nature peculiar- 
ly fitted. He opened a private school at Jamaica Plain (now 
West Roxbury), Mass., which he continued for more than thirty 
years with eminent success. In 1849, he removed to East Green- 
wich, R.I., where he continued his school until the loth of Feb- 
ruary, 1856 ; when he was seized with a slight paralytic affection, 
which compelled him to relinquish his labors. During the time 
he was engaged in teaching, more than seven hundred youth went 
forth from his school, many of whom now fill high places, and 



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have achieved deserved eminence. Among those who gratefully 
testify to the good influences exerted upon them, while at his 
school, may be mentioned George W. Curtis, the "Howadji ; " 
J. Lothrop Motley, the historian ; Frank B. Goodrich, author of 
the "Court of Napoleon ;" Charles G. Leland, and Fletcher and 
Edward Webster. The great feature of this school consisted 
not so much in its educational advantages, though these were 
undoubted, as in the excellent influences which were brought to 
bear upon the characters of the pupils. The boys were trained 
to be courteous and gentlemanly, with a modest but manly 
bearing, and a noble scorn of all that was mean or ungenerous. 
Himself a gentleman of the old school, Mr. Greene labored 
earnestly and successfully to train up his pupils in all the virtues 
which belong to that type. It was to this moral training that 
Mr. Greene chiefly confined himself. Though admirably quali- 
fied, it was his custom to devolve upon assistants the main 
burden of instruction, under his general supervision. Those 
who have had familiar opportunities to observe how admirably 
he understood the nature of boys, and how wisely and well he 
managed them — smoothino- down their roujjh angularities, and 
instilling into them gentlemanly courtesy, mutual forbearance, 
and a manly deference for their superiors in age and acquire- 
ments — during his thirty -nine years' experience, will be 
tempted to compare him, not out of empty compliment, but 
with full conviction, to the celebrated Dr. Arnold, the model 
teacher of England. It may not be out of place to chronicle 
an illustration of the high integrity which actuated Mr. Greene 
in his dealings with his fellow-men. At the close of his mer- 
cantile life, he failed to the amount of thirty thousand dollars, 
— a sum which, legally, he was not bound to pay ; but, with a 
sense of obligation wholly independent of legal enactments, he 
discharged the entire debt out of the subsequent profits of his 
school. It was many years before he could accomplish it ; but 
he steadfastly persevered until every dollar was paid. Mr. 
Greene employed himself for some time in writing a history of 
the country around the Black Sea, an account of his own voy- 
age and observations while there and at Constantinople, with 

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the intention of publishing them ; hut, on being applied to by 
Gen. Henry A. S. Dearborn for information <m those subjects, 
finding the latter was preparing a work on the "Commerce of 
the Black Sea," he handed him his manuscripts, desiring him to 

make what use of them lie might wish, and then gave up all 
thoughts of publishing any thing himself. 

Mr. Greene's second wife survived him, but had no children. 

1803.— Rev. Asa Eaton died in Boston, 24 March, 1858, 
aged 79. He was born in Plaistow, N.II., 25 July, 1778 ; was 
fitted for college by Rev. Giles Merrill, of Haverhill, Mass. 
(II. C. 1 759) . After a brief preparatory course of theological 
studies, he was instituted rector of Christ Church in Boston, 
23 October, 1805, where he labored diligently and faithfully 
until May, 1829, when he resigned his rectorship ; and, for eight 
years subsequently, was employed as a city-missionary, — labor- 
ing among the destitute in Boston, and preaching to the poor in 
a hall where the seats were free. From 1837 to 1841, he was 
connected with a literary institution in New Jersey. Fen* a 
short time previous to his death, he was attached to the Church 
of the Advent in Boston. He was a distinguished member of 
the Masonic Fraternity, and at one time held the office of deputy 
grand-master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. He was 
widely known throughout the county, from his long connection 
with the Episcopal church, his blameless life, and his entire 
consecration to the work of the Christian ministry. His tall and 
commanding figure, with locks of snowy whiteness, attracted 
attention wherever he went ; and his memory is revered as a 
beloved and faithful expounder of divine truth. He married, 
9 October, 1813, Susannah Storer, youngest daughter of Eben- 
ezer Storer, of Boston (H.C. 1747), and had six children, — 
three sons and three daughters ; of whom two sons and one 
daughter survived him. His wife died 26 November, 1853, aged 
71 years. 

1804. — Benjamin Guild died in Boston, 30 March, 1858, 
aged 72. He was son of Benjamin (H.C. 1769) and Eliza 
(Quincy) Guild, and was born in Boston, 8 May, 1785. His 
father was born in Wrentham, Mass., 28 April, 1749; was a 



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tutor in Harvard College from 1776 to 1780 ; and was a mem- 
ber of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was 
for some time a preacher ; but subsequently opened a book-store 
in Cornhill (now Washington Street) , Boston, which he kept for 
some years. He died in October, 1792, aged 43 years. The 
subject of this notice was fitted for college at Hingham Academy. 
He studied law with Hon. William Prescott (H.C. 1783). On 
his admission to the bar, he opened an office in Boston, and 
afterwards became a law-partner with Mr. Prescott. He was 
subsequently associated in the practice of his profession with 
Benjamin Rand, of Boston (H.C. 1808). He married, 31 
March, 1817, Eliza Eliot, daughter of Samuel Eliot, a dis- 
tinguished and wealthy merchant of Boston ; and had five chil- 
dren, — three sons and two daughters, — who, with his widow, 
survived him. All his sons have graduated at Harvard College ; 
viz., Samuel Eliot in 1839, Charles Eliot in 1840, and Edward 
Chipman in 1853. Mr. Guild was, for more than thirty years, 
an active and efficient member of the Massachusetts Society for 
the Promotion of Agriculture ; was for some time its recording- 
secretary ; and was the writer of many of its annual reports. 
He was a gentleman of polished manners, of an exceedingly 
affable and sociable disposition, and was highly respected and 
beloved by a large circle of acquaintance. 

1805. — Ephraim Hinds died in West Boylston, Mass., 
18 June, 1858, aged 77. He was son of Benjamin and Tabitha 
(Holland) Hinds, and was born in that part of Shrewsbury- 
which is now within the limits of West Boylston, 7 November, 
1780. His father was a farmer, and one of the earliest settlers 
of the town. His mother was a native of Boylston. He was 
fitted for college partly at Leicester Academy, and partly by 
Rev. William Nash, of West Boylston (Y.C. 1791). After 
leaving college, he taught school in Boston, Watertown, 
Sterling, Lancaster, Mass., and several places in Vermont. 
After some years spent in teaching, he entered upon the study 
of law under the instruction of Eleazer James, of Barre, Mass. 
(H.C. 1778). Qn his admission to the bar, he began the prac- 
tice of his profession in Barre, where he resided a short time ; 



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when he removed to Athol. From this town lie went to Har- 
vard, where he remained about thirteen years; afterwards he 
lived in Marlborough from 1833 to 1841 ; in South Brookfield 
from .May, 1<S41, to May, 1845 ; in Soutli Orange from .May to 
November, 1845; in Deerfield from November, 1845, to May, 
1847 ; and in West Boylston from May, 1847, until his death. 
He married, 28 April, 1823, Maria, daughter of Hutchins Hap- 
good, of Petersham. lie was greatly respected at the bar as a 
man of strict veracity, of unbending integrity, sound judgment, 
and practical wisdom. He had been unable to walk for more 
than a year before his death, in consequence of a severe rheu- 
matic affection ; but was uniformly cheerful, and entirely sub- 
missive to the Divine Will. He was remarkable for his habits of 
punctuality, systematic arrangement of secular affairs, and rigid 
economy. His memory was wonderful. A few days before his 
death, his pastor, sitting by his bedside, quoted a passage from 
the xc. Psalm : " The days of our years are threescore years and 
ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is 
their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we 
fly away ;" and added, "I suppose your experience, Mr. Hinds, 
confirms the truth of the Psalmist's declaration, that it is labori- 
ous and sorrowful work to live." — "Yes," said he, " even to 
breathe." He then added, " That is a brief but exact description 
of old age, and reminds me of a passage in Virgil." — " Can you 
repeat it? " asked his pastor. " Yes," he replied ; and did so, as 
•follows : — 

" Optima quasque dies miseris mortalibus aevi 
Prima fugit : subeunt morbi, tristisque senectus : 
Et labor et dime rapit inclementia mortis." 

Georg., lib. iii. 66-8. 

" From wretcbed mortals eacb best day of life 
First takes its flight. Diseases follow next, 
Old age disconsolate, and weary toil ; 
And death, relentless, snatching them away." 

Kennedy's Translation. 

At the time of his funeral, an old friend, who was his con- 
temporary at college, and who had been associated with him, 
more or less, for nearly seventy years, rose, and said with deep 



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emotion, "I have intimately known the deceased from early 
boyhood, and have distinct and pleasant recollections of him for 
more than half a century. I can truly say, that as a com- 
panion in youthful days, as a fellow-student in the school, the 
academy, and the college, as an associate at the bar and in the 
various relations of life, I have never known a man of stricter 
integrity, purer life and manners, or more unblemished moral 
character, than Ephraim Hinds." It was a beautiful and affect- 
ing tribute of respect and affection, spontaneously given with 
tears and a broken utterance. 

Mr. Hinds left three sons and one daughter ; she being the 
youngest child, and about twenty-one years of age. He also 
left an ample estate, the fruit of his industry and prudence. 

1806. — Hon. William Pitt Preble died in Portland, 
Me., 11 October, 1857, aged 73. He was born in York, 
Me., 27 November, 1783 ; was fitted for college by Rev. Rose- 
well Messinger, of York (H.C. 1797), and graduated with 
high honors. He was distinguished, when in college, for Ins 
skill in mathematics, and his powers of argumentation. On 
leaving college, he read law, first with Hon. Benjamin Hasey 
(H.C. 1790), and then with Hon. Benjamin Orr, of Tops- 
ham, Me. (D.C 1798). In 1809, he was appointed tutor in 
Harvard College, where he continued two years ; and, while 
tutor, he married a Miss Tucker, of York, daughter of the 
collector of that port. On resigning his tutorship, he began 
the practice of law in his native town, and rapidly rose to the 
front rank in his profession. He soon removed to Alfred, Me., 
where he remained in practice until 1813 ; when, having been 
appointed United-States district-attorney for Maine District, he 
removed to Saco, and thence, in 1818, to Portland. The 
following sketch of his life is principally derived from an able 
article published in the " Portland State of Maine " soon after 
his death. He took an active interest in politics from early life ; 
was at first an ardent federalist, but subsequently acted with the 
democratic party, became a leading advocate for the separation 
of Maine from Massachusetts, and wrote a pamphlet in its 
favor. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 



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Maine in 181!), :m<l wrote its address to the people of the state. 
In 1820, lie was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of 
Maine, — associate with Hon. Prentiss Mellen (II. C. 1784), 
chief- justice. This office he resigned in 1<S2!>, on being ap- 
pointed, with Mr. Gallatin, an agent to prepare the case of the 
United-States Government before the King of the Netherlands ; 
and was finally appointed, by Gen. Jackson, minister-plenipo- 
tentiary to the Hague. His career as a public man, for which he 
was most distinguished, was in connection with the north- 
eastern-boundary question. His ability in exposing the absurd- 
ity of the decision of the Dutch king was undoubtedly chiefly 
instrumental in causing its defeat in the United-States Senate. 
He was one of the commissioners of Maine in 1832 with the 
Hon. Ruel Williams and the Hon. Nicholas Emery, and ad- 
vised a compromise by taking lands in Michigan in exchange 
for lands north of the St. John ; but the legislature of Maine 
declined the offer to this effect by the general government. At 
the close of his foreign mission, he returned to the practice of 
law in Portland. He was elected by the legislature as a 
commissioner with Gov. Kent and others, in 1842, to arrange 
the Treaty of Washington ; and finally gave his sanction, 
though reluctantly, to the mode of settlement carried out by the 
Webster-and-Ashburton Treaty. This was the last political 
office which he held. In 1844, he was called to what he re- 
garded as the most important duty that had ever engaged his 
attention, — the connecting by railway of the Avaters of the St. 
Lawrence with those of the Atlantic. He was slow to engage in 
that work, and his natural caution made him at first fearful of 
any connection with that enterprise ; but, after mature reflection, 
he engaged in it with all the enthusiasm of youth, and all the 
vigor of early manhood. When his concurrence in the scheme 
was known, it gave to it the confidence of the public; and a 
large share of credit is due to him for its success. He was 
the first president of the corporation, and continued to hold the 
office until 1848 ; when he declined a re-election, and retired 
from public labors. He lived to see the work accomplished, 
but not to lose his interest in its prosperity. The last article, 



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probably, which he prepared for the press, was upon the White- 
Mountain scenery along the route, and which was published in 
the "Portland Argus" a short time before his death. All his 
public writings display the most marked exhibition of labor, and 
care of preparation. He never allowed any thing from his pen 
to appear, without subjecting it to the most elaborate prepara- 
tion. But little, however, remains that will serve as an endur- 
ing record of his labors. His reported opinions as a judge 
do not give any adequate idea of his power as a lawyer. He 
had a reputation for intellectual power far beyond any measure 
of success that he obtained ; and those who knew him best were 
aware of his peculiarities of temperament and of temper, that 
were a drawback to popular favor. He appeared to the best 
advantage in the oral argument of legal questions. He stated 
legal propositions with a clearness and force that were rarely 
equalled. When all his faculties were raised into activity by 
the excitement of a great occasion, the pressure of a crowd, or 
the responsibilities of a great cause, his mind worked with the 
greatest ease ; and he was capable, on such occasions, of bring- 
ing out an argument, that by its strength of reasoning, force of 
illustration, and effective eloquence, gave him the mastery over 
others. In 1829, the honorary degree of doctor of laws was 
conferred upon him by Bowdoin College. 

1807. — Hon. John Glen King died in Salem, Mass., 
26 July, 1857, aged 70. He was the second son of James 
King, Esq. ; and was born in Salem, 19 March, 1787. He 
was fitted for college at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. 
He did not graduate with his class, but, like many others of 
his own and the succeeding class, left college in May, 1807, 
the period of what is known as "the Grand Commons-Re- 
bellion." His degree was conferred upon him in 1818. He 
pursued the study of law under the instruction of Hon. Wil- 
liam Prescott (H.C. 1783) and Hon. Joseph Story (H.C. 
1798) ; was admitted a member of the Essex bar; began the 
practice of his profession in Salem, where he continued during 
the remainder of his life. He attained an eminent rank, and 
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Essex county. He was repeatedly elected to offices of honor 
and trust. He was chosen a representative from Salem to the 
state legislature in 1816 and 1821 ; and was a member of the 
senate from Essex District in 1822, 1823, and 1826. He was 
also the first president of the common-council of Salem, under 
the city charter. Among his important legislative duties may 
be mentioned his share in the great Prescott impeachment case, 
in 1821. lie, being at that time a member of the house of 
representatives, was appointed to make the impeachment at the 
bar of the senate, in the name of the house of representatives 
and of the people of Massachusetts ; and afterwards was ap- 
appointed first of the seven managers on the part of the house 
to conduct the impeachment before the senate, sitting as a 
court; the other six being Levi Lincoln (afterwards governor), 
William Baylies, Warren Dutton, Samuel P. P. Fay (after- 
wards judge), Lemuel Shaw (afterwards chief-justice of the 
Supreme Judicial Court), and Sherman Leland (afterwards 
judge). Horatio G. Newcomb and Francis C. Gray, in the 
course of the proceedings, were substituted for Messrs. Lincoln 
and Baylies. Mr. King, although younger than several of the 
gentlemen comprising this eminent array of legal talent, bore a 
distinguished part in the conduct of the laborious and novel case. 
He made the opening argument ; and, at the close of the pro- 
ceedings, demanded judgment upon the articles on which the 
respondent was found guilty. The following eminent legal gen- 
tlemen were the respondent's counsel : William Prescott, George 
Blake, Daniel Webster, Samuel Hoar, Samuel Hubbard, and 
Augustus Peabody. Mr. King was, for many years, commis- 
sioner-of-insolvency, and held that office at the time of his death. 
He was also a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 
He was a wise and learned counsellor, whose honor and integrity 
were without the suspicion of a stain ; whose counsel in the dis- 
tribution of estates was sought from far and near ; and whose 
association in any deed of trust gave confidence to all who were 
interested in its being honestly and judiciously administered. 
His mind was singularly acute and critical ; his spirit, of that 
justly balanced cast, which, while wisely conservative in all its 



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tendencies and judgments, was keenly alive to every moral and 
social wrong, and resolute in the maintenance of the right and 
the true, in the face of any weight of precedent or example on 
the other side. His love of literature and of books almost 
amounted to a passion. His precious and well-selected library 
was his solace through many a year of suffering ; and the sight 
of it, around his bed of mortal sickness, cheered and enlivened 
the last days of his declining life. He was a scholar, and a ripe 
and good one. The ancient classics were his mental food and 
drink. He nourished his spirit, too, on the old English master- 
pieces, especially of the theologians, for whose range of subjects 
his mind had a natural affinity ; but in every stage of English 
literature he was at home, and his fine and cultivated taste appre- 
ciated all that was truly worthy. Mr. King married Susan, 
daughter of Major Frederick Gilman, of Gloucester. He had 
six children, of whom two died in infancy : the others, with his 
widow, survived him. One son, John Gallison King, graduated 
at Harvard College in 1838. 

1807. — Jared Weed died in Petersham, Mass., 6 August, 
1857, aged 74. He was son of Elnathan and Lydia (Bouton) 
Weed, and was born in North Stamford, Conn., 5 April, 1783. 
He was fitted for college in North Salem, N.Y., under the in- 
struction of a Scotch pedagogue, whom he used to speak of as 
"Old Johnny McNess." He had certain peculiarities of expres- 
sion which he undoubtedly contracted under this Scotchman's 
teaching. He studied law with Hon. William Stedman, of Lan- 
caster, Mass. (H.C. 1784), and Judge Nathaniel Paine, of 
Worcester (H.C. 1775). With Judge Paine he acquired a 
thorough knowledge of probate business, which he was said to 
transact remarkably well, and which he continued to practise 
until his death. He was admitted to the bar in Worcester, and 
in 1813 established himself in the practice of law in Peters- 
ham, where he resided during the remainder of his life. He 
made his first entries in the Court of Common Pleas in Worces- 
ter County at the November term in 1812, and continued after 
that to make entries at each term. He was admitted an attor- 
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1816, and a counsellor of the same court at the September term 
in 1818. He attained a very respectable standing in his pro- 
fession ; was a magistrate in whom the people had confidence, 
an honest politician, and a most worthy and excellent man. He 
was, for several years, chairman of the board of county-com- 
missioners ; and filled other offices of honor and trust which were 
bestowed upon him by his fellow-townsmen and the citizens of 
his county, with credit to himself, and satisfaction to his con- 
stituents. He married, 30 April, 1821, Eliza Prentiss, of 
Petersham, daughter of Nathan and Lydia Prentiss (singular 
coincidence with the names of his parents). He had three 
daughters, — Elizabeth Otis, born 1822 ; Lydia Pennoyer, born 
1823 ; and Mary Jane, born 1827, — the eldest of whom only 
survived him : the others died within six years of the death of 
their father. His widow survived him. He was a kind and 
indulgent husband and father, thoughtful for others, and exhib- 
ited wonderful patience during the last five weary years of his 
life while suffering from a severe attack of paralysis. His 
mother always said, " Jared was a good boy at home, — her best 
child ; " and she had a large family. He was too forgetful of 
his own interests for his worldly prosperity; but his- generous, 
kind heart is remembered by his friends. 

Mr. Weed was descended, on the mother's side, from a 
family by the name of Pennoyer ; one of whom, William Penn- 
oyer, many years ago, left a legacy to Harvard College on condi- 
tion of the awarding of certain benefits to such of his descendants 
as should be educated there, of which Mr. Weed had a share. 
William Pennoyer never came to this country, but lived and 
died in England . It is his brother Robert's descendants who have 
lived in the United States. 

1811. — Rev. Samuel Gilman, of Charleston, S.C., died 
at the residence of his son-in-law, Rev. Charles J. Bo wen, in 
Kingston, Mass., 9 February, 1858, aged C)6. He was son of 
Frederick and Abigail H. (Somes) Gilman, and was born 
in Gloucester, Mass., 16 February, 1791. His father had 
been a very successful merchant in Gloucester, but died insolvent 
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by the capture of several of his vessels by the French in the war 
of 1798. He left a youthful widow and four male children; 
and, when Samuel was about seven years old, his mother took 
him to Atkinson, N.H., to be educated in the academy there, 
under the charge of Rev. Stephen Peabody (H.C. 1769), whose 
quaint, primitive ways are described with inimitable humor in a 
biographical sketch by Dr. Gilman, published in the " Christian 
Examiner" in 1847. Not long subsequently, the family re- 
moved to Salem, Mass. ; and Samuel was for some time em- 
ployed as a clerk in the old Essex Bank. He graduated with 
high honors in a class remarkable for eminent talent. A poem, 
which he delivered on his graduation, " On the Pleasures and 
Pains of a Student," was replete with humor, and elicited raptu- 
rous applause from a crowded audience. This poem he repeated 
on the evening of commencement-day, in 1852, at the residence 
of Hon. Edward Everett, in Boston, whither the class had been 
invited to celebrate the forty-first anniversary of their gradua- 
tion ; and added a sequel, in which he gave a retrospect of the 
time from their graduation to that period, paying a brief and 
beautiful tribute to the memory of those of the class who had 
deceased. The poem concluded with the following fine compli- 
ment to their host, the Hon. Mr. Everett : — 

" Stay yet, dear friends ! the minstrel bids you toast, 
In pure, bright water, our accomplished host ; 
Who gives, one need not say, our class its name, 
Tinged with the lustre of his well-earned fame. 
Health for his labors, for his cares relief, 
To him, our first and last unenvied chief! " 

These two poems were printed immediately afterwards for dis- 
tribution to the surviving members of the class. 

Among the various pursuits which offered themselves to Dr. 
Gilman's choice, was that to which, by character and endow- 
ments, he was best adapted ; and it was the profession which was 
the choice of his heart. He soon began the study of theology 
under the supervision of Drs. Ware and Kirkland, who then 
constituted the theological faculty. Fortunately for him, he was 
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maturely into professional life. He lingered long under the roof 
of his Alma Mater, maturing his mind, extending his knowledge, 
and laving up those intellectual and literary treasures which his 

future isolation rendered so important. In In 17, he was ap- 
pointed tutor in mathematics at Harvard College ; which office 
he held two years. Early in 1819, he went to Charleston, S.C., 
where he received a pastoral call as successor to the Rev. An- 
thony M. Foster ; and, after a few months of probationary service, 
he was ordained, 1 December, 1819, as pastor of the Unitarian 
or Second Independent church in that city. The ordination- 
sermon was preached by Rev. Joseph Tuckerman, D.D., of 
Chelsea, Mass. (H.C. 1798). Here he labored faithfully and 
acceptably until his last sickness. He was universally respected 
by the people of the city of his residence, and his influence ex- 
tended far beyond the limits of the religious denomination with 
which he was connected. He was the life and soul of the New- 
England society of South Carolina, and was always hospitable 
to all visitors from the North. During his residence in Cam- 
bridge, he was a frequent contributor to the "North-American 
Review," in which periodical his papers are marked by their 
polished elegance of diction, the grace and felicity of their illus- 
trations, and their racy humor. Among his contributions were 
a series of able papers on the philosophical lectures of Dr. Tho- 
mas Brown, and translations of several of the satires of Boileau. 
One of his most noted essays was on "The Influence of One 
National Literature upon Another." He also wrote a fine paper 
on " The Writings of Edward Everett," his classmate and warm 
personal friend. After his removal to Charleston, he continued 
to write for different periodicals ; his contributions embracing a 
wdde range of subjects, from profound philosophical discussions 
to sparkling satirical essays. A selection of these was published 
in a volume a few years since, under the title of " Contributions to 
American Literature, descriptive, critical, humorous, brigraphi- 
cal, philosophical, and poetical." Among his productions, the 
"Recollections of a New-England Village Choir" has, perhaps, 
become the most generally popular. For apt local description, 
a keen sense of the ludicrous, and a happy intuition of charac- 



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teristic peculiarities, it has seldom been matched in the humorous 
literature of this country. Dr. Gilman possessed the gift of 
poetry, which he cultivated with no inconsiderable success. He 
had a luxuriant fancy, an excellent command of natural imagery, 
and great fluency of expression. As a pulpit-orator, he was 
affectionate and persuasive ; equally removed from languor and 
vehemence ; never boisterous, but always in earnest ; loving 
the sphere of universal ethics rather than the subtleties of secta- 
rian doctrine ; and commending the great lessons he taught by 
the shining and noble example of his private life. 

Dr. Gilman married, 14 October, 1819, Miss Caroline 
Howard, daughter of Samuel Howard, a shipwright of Bos- 
ton ; a lady of remarkable talents and acquirements. She is 
the author of several excellent books : viz., "Oracles from the 
Poets ; " " Recollections of a New - England Housekeeper ; " 
" New-England Bride, and Southern Matron ; " " Poetry of 
Travelling in the United States ; " " Tales and Ballads ; " and 
others. 

Dr. Gilman had four daughters, who survived him: viz., 
Abby Louisa, wife of Francis J. Porcher, merchant, of 
Charleston; Caroline H., widow of William Glover, planter, 
of South Carolina; Eliza W., wife of Pickering Dodge, Esq., 
of Salem ; Anna, wife of Rev. Charles J. Bowen, of Kings- 
ton, Mass. He had also a son, who died young. His widow 
survives him. His occasioned visits to the home of his youth 
kept his ancient intimacies unbroken ; old associations were 
preserved amid the excitement of novel scenes and fresh in- 
terests ; and, now that he has passed away, his memory will 
be tenderly cherished, both by those to whom he devoted the 
maturity of his strength, and those among whom he has found 
a grave. 

1812. — Hon. Franklin Dexter died in Beverly, Mass., 
14 August, 1857, aged 63. He was son of Hon. Samuel 
(H.C. 1781) and Catharine (Gordon) Dexter, and was born 
in Charlestown, Mass., 5 November, 1793. He held a high 
rank in college, and graduated with distinction. He studied 
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190 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1857-58. 

1802), and was admitted in regular course to practice in Suf- 
folk County. lie established himself in Boston, where he soon 
rose to distinction at the bar, which could boast, during his 
connection with it, the names of Otis, Jackson, Prescott, Web- 
ster, Mason, and Hubbard. Among such rivals, he took rank 
as a leader. Several of his competitors, undoubtedly, were 
more successful ; that is, they had more cases on their dockets, 
and much larger incomes by their profession : but he was one 
of the first to be sought in important cases, or when great legal 
points were to be discussed, or large interests disposed of. 
This position he held, with continually increasing reputa- 
tion, until his retirement from practice in 1845. He was for 
some years a partner of Hon. Charles Greely Loring (H.C. 
1812) ; afterwards of Hon. William Prescott (H.C. 1783) ; 
and, still later, of William Howard Gardiner (H.C. 1816) 
and George William Phillips (H.C. 1829). He was employed 
as counsel for the Knapps, in their trial for the murder of Capt. 
White, at Salem, in 1830 ; and exhibited great skill and logical 
acuteness in their defence against the gigantic powers of Daniel 
Webster, who was employed in behalf of the government. 
He was afterwards engaged in the defence of Mrs. Kinney, 
who was acquitted on a charge of poisoning her husband in 
Lowell. He held many public stations, which he filled with 
honor to himself, and advantage to the community. On the 
4th of July, 1819, by appointment of the authorities of the town 
of Boston, he delivered the oration on the anniversary of the Dec- 
laration of Independence. He was elected a representative from 
Boston to the state legislature in 1825, 1826, and 1840 ; in 

1835, he was chosen senator from Suffolk District; and in 

1836, as one of the select committee, he rendered valuable 
and important service in shaping and improving the Revised 
Statutes. He was a member of the city-council in 1825. He 
took much interest in military affairs, and was for some time 
commander of the New-England Guards. He had a rare 
taste for the fine arts, and was a warm friend and admirer of 
Washington Allston. His beautiful criticism on landscape- 
painting, in an extended article in the " North- American Re- 



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view," attests his information on this subject. "In political 
life," says his classmate, the Hon. Charles G. Loring, "Mr. 
Dexter exhibited the same love of truth, and contempt of arti- 
fice, the same gentlemanly bearing, and marked ability for 
debate, which distinguished him at the bar. Eminently faithful 
to his convictions of duty to his country, he never sacrificed or 
compromised them at the behest of a party, or under the more 
insidious and dangerous influences of private friendship or 
social influence. An enlightened and fervent lover of her in- 
stitutions, he was not lost in blind or extravagant admiration to 
their peculiar weaknesses and dangers ; and contemned the 
appeals to that infatuation, so generally characteristic of popular 
addresses, and so often the cloak of basely selfish hypocrisy. 
It was perhaps in this sphere of duty, more than in any other, 
that his resolution and intrepidity were displayed. In the great 
struggle of 1850, his convictions upon the great questions which 
divided the country impelled him into painful opposition to the 
principles avowed, and measures advocated, by the great 
champion of the party with which he had hitherto united himself 
and his associates, which drew upon him, not merely the re- 
proaches and suspicions of the zealous partisans, and many of 
the public prints of the day, which he could patiently and 
calmly endure, but alienated many whom he had been accus- 
tomed to look upon as personal friends, who turned from him 
in coldness, or indulged in censure of his course ; thus adding 
another victim to that lamentable intolerance in public opinion, 
by which our community has been too long and unhappily dis- 
tinguished, and which seems in strange contrast with its claims 
to intellectual position and advancement. But no desertion of 
friends, no blandishment or persecution, could damp his courage, 
or shake his consistency. He never ceased to maintain, and 
press upon the public mind, the views he entertained ; and hap- 
pily lived long enough at last to enjoy the satisfaction of seeing 
them become those of the great mass of his fellow-citizens, 
though his sensitive mind never recovered from the wounds thus 
ungenerously inflicted, which, to use his own expressive lan- 
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accepted from President Harrison the office of district-attorney 
of the United States for the district o£ Massachusetts. To his 
conduct in office, his friend, who presides over the court in 
which his practice necessarily lay, bore ample and just testi- 
mony. Judge Sprague said, " His official duties lay mostly in 
the court in which I presided ; and I can bear witness that they 
were performed with consummate ability, fidelity, and discre- 
tion. Vigilant and firm in the detection and punishment of 
crime, it was always with that considerate calmness which 
became the representative of a mild and paternal government. 
While he effectually repelled and exposed every effort, however 
bold or artful, to turn aside the course of justice, no amount of 
opposition in a trial, whatever its force or character, could 
convert it, on his part, into a contest for victory, or an occasion 
of self-exhibition. He had the most exact appreciation of the 
duties of his station, and every qualification for their perform- 
ance. Indeed, no man could come nearer to the ideal of a 
perfect public-prosecutor." Mr. Dexter married, 28 Septem- 
ber, 1819, Catherine Elizabeth Prescott, daughter of Hon. 
William Prescott. He had five children. One died in infan- 
cy : the others, with his widow, survived him. For a few years 
before his death, he resided permanently in Beverly. In 1857, 
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon 
him by Harvard College. 

1818. — James Barbour died in Barboursville, Orange 
County, Va., 7 November, 1857, aged 58. He was the eldest 
son of the late Governor James Barbour, of Virginia, from 
whom he inherited talents that would have distinguished him 
in any walk of public life, but for a constitutional modesty, 
which kept him in retirement. He was born in Orange county, 
Va., 22 December, 1798. He graduated with distinction in a 
class which exceeded in numbers any previous one which had 
ever left the walls of Harvard. With strong literary tastes, 
and a mind enlarged and improved by foreign travel, he pursued 
the cultivation of polite learning in the intervals of leisure af- 
forded him in the management of a large plantation ; and there 
were few men of wider information or sounder scholarship in 



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the state. In 1828, he accompanied his father to England, 
where the late Gov. Barbour was sent as minister to that 
country ; and served as secretary-of-legation to the court of 
George IV. Old enough to have seen some of the Greatest 
men in Virginia, in the unreserve of social intercourse, around 
his father's fireside; his conversation was rich in reminiscences 
of political and literary celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic, 
and embraced personal anecdotes of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madi- 
son, Mr. Monroe, Lafayette, Sir Walter Scott, and others : but 
he never talked for effect ; and so little pretension was there in 
his manner, that a careless observer might have passed him by 
as a person of ordinary powers. But, as soon as he engaged 
with zest in the conversation of the moment, it was impossible 
not to perceive that he was a very uncommon man. A volume 
of his recollections would have been a great addition to the 
department of literature which embraces the ana of distin- 
guished people. 

1821. — Dr. Oliver Hunter Blood died in Worcester, 
Mass., 8 April, 1858, aged 57. He was son of Thomas 
Howard and Polly (Sawyer) Blood, and was born in Sterling, 
Mass., 31 May, 1800. He was fitted for college by Eev. 
Lemuel Capen, of Sterling (H.C. 1810). On leaving college, 
he determined to become a physician, and pursued his profes- 
sional studies under the instruction of Dr. John Green, of Wor- 
cester (B.U. 1804). Having received his degree of M.D. 
in 1826, he began the practice of his profession in Brook- 
field, Mass., where he remained two years. He then removed 
to Worcester, where he resided during the remainder of his life. 
He married Ellen Blake, daughter of Hon. Francis Blake, of 
Worcester (H.C. 1789), and had eight children, — four sons 
and four daughters. One son died at the age of four years : his 
other children, with his widow, survived him. He was a man of 
small stature, but of great physical strength ; and, on this account, 
when in college he became the possessor of the huge herculean 
club, which bore the significant name of the "Thundering 
Bolus ; " a weapon of formidable size, which, for many years, 
was transmitted from class to class to the strongest member in 

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each. Dr. Blood was a man of social and genial disposition. 
With a fund of ready wit always at command, he was ever :i 
welcome guest at the festive board. His name, originally, was 
Oliver Blood : but, a short time before he entered college, he, 
with some juvenile companions, went on a hunting expedition, 
which was attended with but indifferent success ; and on their 
return, merely out of sport, he assumed the name of Hunter, — 
quasi Incus a non lucendo, — which he ever after retained. Pos- 
sessed of the kindest feelings, and of a most obliging disposi- 
tion, he was greatly beloved, not only by his family, but by the 
community among whom he had so long lived. 

1821. — William Foster Otis, of Boston, died in Ver- 
sailles, France, 29 May, 1858, aged 56. His disease was 
"syncope of the heart." His death was very sudden, he having 
been in perfect health until about fifteen minutes before he 
breathed his last. He left Boston on the 17th of June, 1857, 
for Liverpool, and had been travelling in England and on the 
Continent. The last winter he spent in Paris, and had been 
about two weeks in Versailles at the time of his death. He 
Was the third son of Hon. Harrison Gray (H.C. 1783) and 
Sally (Foster) Otis ; and was born in Boston, 1 December, 
1801. He was fitted for college at the Public Latin School in 
Boston. Having chosen the profession of law, he pursued 
his legal studies with his eldest brother, Harrison Gray Otis, 
jun. (H.C. 1811), and Augustus Peabody (D.C. 1803), of 
Boston. On his admission to the bar, he established himself 
in the practice of his profession in Boston. In early life he 
took an active part in political and military affairs. He was an 
officer in the New-England Guards ; was a member of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1828 ; and was 
commissioned as a major in the Boston regiment. He was 
elected a representative to the legislature in 1830, and was re- 
elected the two following years. On the 4th of July, 1831, he 
delivered an oration before the young men of Boston, which 
excited much attention from the spirit of " Young America " 
which he displayed in it ; and which at that time, among the 
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He early retired from public life and from the practice of his 
profession, preferring the quiet of private life to political strifes 
and forensic contests. He was a gentleman of polished manners, 
affable in his deportment, and of unblemished moral character. 
He was, for several years, president of the Young Men's 
Temperance Society ; was an active member of the Church of the 
Advent in Boston, was a liberal contributor to its support, and, 
at the time he left for Europe, was its senior warden. He 
married, 18 May, 1831, Emily, daughter of Josiah Marshall, 
Esq., a merchant of Boston. She was a lady of remarkable 
personal beauty and accomplishments, which were exceeded 
only by the goodness of her heart and the loveliness of her life. 
She died, 17 August, 1836, at the early age of 29. Her death 
was a severe affliction to her husband, from which he seemed 
never to recover. He left two daughters. His only son died 
24 October, 1848, at the age of 12 years. 

1828. — Frederic Dabney died in Fayal, Azores, 29 De- 
cember, 1857, aged 48. He was son of John Bass and Roxa 
(Lewis) Dabney, and was born in Fayal (where his father resided 
as United-States consul for many years), 2 August, 1809. He 
was fitted for college, partly by Rev. Henry Colman (D.C. 1805) 
at Brookline, and partly by Jacob Newman Knapp (PLC. 1802) 
at Jamaica Plain, Mass. He was one of the youngest in his 
class, and one of the most juvenile in appearance ; he had 
however, a manly deportment, which won from his associates 
the love given to a younger brother, and the respect paid to an 
equal. He entered with great earnestness into the athletic 
sports of the gymnasium (which were introduced during his 
collegiate course) ; and was one of the most graceful and skil- 
ful performers, especially in those exercises which require agility 
rather than strength. He was not ambitious of college distinc- 
tions, but was faithful in the discharge of his duties ; held a 
respectable rank in every department of study, and enjoyed the 
confidence and esteem of his teachers. Immediately after 
leaving college, he returned to Fayal, and engaged in the mer- 
cantile business as a partner in the firm of which his father was 
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he led an active, useful, and happy life. He visited Boston a 
few times, and spent some lime in Europe, seeking the restora- 
tion of impaired health. In 1835, while in England, he mar- 
ried Roxana Staekpole, of Boston. His business, the duties 
of a wide hospitality, his books, and bis family, filled up his 
time pleasantly and profitably. His classmates, at their period- 
ical meetings, occasionally received an affectionate letter from 
him, in which tenderness of feeling that comes with growing 
years was in touching contrast with the boyish light-heartedness 
of his college-life. He was greatly esteemed and valued in the 
community in which he dwelt ; and the general sense of the 
loss sustained by his death was expressed in the most emphatic 
manner, alike by native and foreign residents, by Catholics and 
Protestants. He died of disease of the lungs. He had long 
been in failing health, and was watched with much anxiety by 
his family and friends ; but his summons was at last sudden. 
He took part in the Christmas festivities of his household, and 
even dined with his family the day before his death ; but, in his 
enfeebled condition, a few hours of suffering sufficed to release 
his spirit. He had ten children ; five of whom, with his widow, 
survived him. 

1828. — Hon. John James Gilchrist, of Charlestown, 
N.H., died in Washington, D.C., 29 April, 1858, aged 49. 
He was the eldest son of Capt. James and Susan (Wyman) 
Gilchrist, and was born in Medford, Mass., 16 February, 1809. 
His father was an active and enterprising shipmaster, sailing for 
many years from the ports of Boston and Salem, in the China 
and East-India trade ; until, having acquired an ample compe- 
tence, he retired from a seafaring life, and removed with his 
family from Medford, in February, 1822, to Charlestown, 
N.H., where he had purchased a farm ; and devoted himself to 
agriculture until his death, which occurred 15 June, 1826. The 
subject of this notice began his preparatory studies for college 
under the instruction of Rev. Jaazaniah Crosby, D.D., of 
Charlestown (H.C. 1804). He was afterwards sent to Med- 
ford, and placed in the private academy of Mr. John Angier 
(H.C. 1821), where he made such rapid progress, that, 



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although not intending, when he went there, to enter to an 
advanced standing, he was enabled to pass a satisfactory exami- 
nation, and was admitted in 1825 to the sophomore class. 
His conduct, while in college, was exemplary, and his character 
unblemished. He was not ambitious for distinction, and his 
course of studies was rather general than confined to the 
requirements of a collegiate course ; and therefore his rank in 
his class, although always respectable, was not so high as he 
might have attained. After leaving college, he began the study 
of the law under the instruction of the late William Brings, of 
Charlestown (D.C 1799), and completed his legal studies at 
the Law School in Cambridge. On his admission to the bar, he 
began the practice of his profession in Charlestown. He rapidly 
rose to distinction, and soon formed a business connection with 
the late Gov. Henry Hubbard (D.C. 1803). He took a pro- 
minent part in politics, and was early elected to offices of trust 
and importance. He repeatedly represented Charlestown in the 
legislature of New Hampshire, and was also elected solicitor of 
Sullivan county. In March, 1840, at the early age of thirty- 
one, he was appointed an associate-justice of the Supreme 
Court of New Hampshire. The ability with which he discharged 
the duties of this high station developed the eminent qualifica- 
tions he possessed for the post to which he had been elevated ; 
and when, on the retirement of the Hon. Joel Parker (D.C. 
1811) from the office of chief-justice, in June, 1848, he was 
at once appointed his successor. This office he held until 
March, 1855 ; when he resigned it to accept that of judge 
of the United-States Court of Claims, to which he had been 
appointed by President Pierce, and which he held at the time 
of his death. 

Judge Gilchrist was a man of ample and varied learning ; a 
clear and good reasoner ; and, as a judge, quick, attentive, and 
courteous. Apart from his judicial sphere, he was a great 
lover of literature, and was thoroughly versed in the standard 
works of England and his own country. In private life, he 
was possessed of a genial, social, and cordial disposition, sea- 
soned with a fine sense of humor, and a keen perception of the 



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ludicrous, which rendered him an agreeable and entertaining 
companion. He married, 2") August, 183(1, Sarah Dean Hub- 
bard, daughter of the late Grov. Hubbard, by whom he had 
two children, — a son and a daughter, — who, with their 
mother, survived him ; his son being then a student of Har- 
vard College. 

In his domestic relations, as a son, husband, father, and 
brother, he was all that could be wished. His house was the 
home of hospitality ; and his many friends who have been wel- 
comed at his board will recall with pleasure the many happy 
hours passed in his society, with' a melancholy regret "that they 
shall sec his face no more." 

1832. — Hon. Albert Hobart Nelson, of Woburn, died 
at the McLean Asylum in Somerville, Mass., 27 June, 1858, 
aged 46. He was son of Dr. John and Lucinda (Parkhurst) 
Nelson, and was born in Milford, Mass., 12 March, 1812. He 
was fitted for college at Concord Academy. After leaving col- 
lege, he entered his name as a law-student in the office of the 
Hon. Samuel Hoar, of Concord, Mass. (H.C. 1802) ; but soon 
afterwards entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he com- 
pleted his studies, and was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws in 1837. On his admission to the bar, he be^an the 
practice of law in Concord, where he remained until 1841 ; when 
he removed to Woburn, which was his subsequent home, al- 
though he had an office in Boston. He was a well-read lawyer, 
a fine speaker, and a most pleasing, persuasive, and successful 
advocate before a jury. He was much in public life. For sev- 
eral years, he held the office of district-attorney for the counties 
of Middlesex and Essex. He was elected as a whig senator, 
from Middlesex District, to the legislature in 1848 and 1841) ; 
and in 1855 he was appointed one of the executive-council, 
which station he resigned a few months afterwards, having 
received the appointment of chief-justice of the Superior 
Court. He continued his seat on the bench until the 6th of 
March, 1858 ; when he was compelled to resign it in consequence 
of ill health. Mental alienation ensued, which increased to such 
a degree, that it became necessary to place him in the asylum for 



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the insane, at Somerville, where he remained until his death. In 
the discharge of his duties as prosecuting-attorney, he was can- 
did and courteous. His elevation to the bench was entirely 
satisfactory to the bar of Suffolk county ; and the manner in 
which he discharged the duties of the station evinced the judi- 
cious decision of the executive in making the appointment. His 
ample experience at the bar had made him familiar with the 
rules of evidence and practice ; and his instinctive legal percep- 
tions and quickness of mind enabled him to decide promptly, 
and generally correctly, the questions that came before him. 

To the town of Woburn the death of Judge Nelson was espe- 
cially a loss. He had done much for its interests, and with an 
enthusiasm which showed that it came from the heart. Many 
of the public measures of the town for. the last fifteen years bear 
the impress of his mind and hand. It was by his efforts, more 
than by those of any other individual, that the High School — 
an institution that reflects the greatest lustre on the town, its 
intelligence and generosity — was established ; and his memory 
was appropriately honored at his funeral by the pupils of the 
school, who came forthwith sorrowful countenances to pay a 
last sad tribute to the worth of their thoughtful benefactor. 

Judge Nelson married, September, 1840, Elizabeth B. 
Phinney, daughter of the late Elias Phinney, of Lexington 
(H.C. 1801), clerk of the courts in Middlesex. His widow and 
one daughter survived him. He had one other child, a son, who 
died in infancy. 

1836. — George Minot died at his residence in Reading, 
Mass., 16 April, 1858, aged 41. He was son of Hon. Stephen 
(H.C. 1801) and Rebecca (Trask) Minot, and was born in 
Haverhill, Mass., 5 January, 1817. His father was son of 
Capt. Jonas Minot, of Concord, Mass., where he was born 
28 September, 1776, and has been a lawyer in Haverhill. He 
was appointed a judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, 
and held the office until 1820, when the law which created that 
court was repealed. In 1824, he was appointed county-attor- 
ney for Essex ; which office he resigned in 1830. He died 
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Trask, of Bradford, Mass., and deceased several years since. 
He began to fit for college at Haverhill Academy, and concluded 
his preparatory studies at Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H. 
Immediately after graduating, he entered the Law School in 
Cambridge, where he remained two years; when he left, and 
completed his legal studies in the offiee of the Hon. Rufus 
Choate (D.C. 1819). He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
April, 1839 ; and immediately opened an office in Boston. He 
lose rapidly to distinction, and soon attained an eminent rank 
in his profession. Possessing a mind remarkably clear and logi- 
cal, his counsel was sought in cases, which, from their intri- 
cacy, required great acumen, keen discernment, and a nice dis- 
crimination. But he was more widely known by his editorial 
labors. He was the careful and accurate editor of the "United- 
States Statutes at Large," during the last ten years. He also 
rendered valuable assistance to the late Mr. Peters in the pre- 
paration of the first eight volumes of the statutes published in 
1848, the full and complete general-index of which was the 
exclusive result of his labors. His name is also familiar to the 
legal profession as associate-reporter of the decisions of the late 
Judge Levi Woodbury in the first Circuit Court ; and his edition 
of the nine volumes of "English Admiralty Reports," repub- 
lished by Little, Brown, and Co., in 1854, bears evidence of 
his industry and learning in this branch of his profession. In 
1844, he edited the work which has made his name familiar to 
every Massachusetts lawyer, — " The Digest of the Decisions of 
the Supreme Court of this State," — to which he added a supple- 
ment in 1852 ; and, until compelled by the state of his health 
to lay aside his labors, he was intending to recast the entire 
work, and, including the later reports, to make it more com- 
pletely useful to the profession, more just to his own reputa- 
tion, and to that of the court, whose learning and ability it would 
illustrate. 

Mr. Minot was for many years solicitor of the Boston and 
Maine Railroad Corporation. As such, he was called on to ad- 
vise in many very delicate and difficult controversies and delibe- 
rations ; and in all he was remarkable at once for honesty of 



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purpose, firmness, and discretion. Beyond his profession, he 
read and speculated more variously and more independently than 
most men of any profession. Elegant general literature ; music, 
of which, in its science and practice, he was a lover and master; 
politics ; theology, in its relations to a religion revealed in the 
Bible, and to that philosophy which performs its main achievement 
in conciliating faith with reason, — were his recreations. To 
sacred music and poetry he devoted himself with fervor. He 
loved especially the standard hymns and tunes of the church in 
which the congregation united in public worship. While in col- 
lege, he was the organist of the chapel ; and, during most of 
his maturer years, he himself conducted the sacred music of 
the religious society with which he worshipped. In his religious 
belief, while he did not receive, as a whole, the creed of any 
sect, he was sincere, earnest, catholic. He made the Bible his 
constant study ; he read and explained it in his house ; and his 
heart embraced, as his reason had acknowledged, its truths. 

He married, first, in 1844, Mrs. Emily P. Ogle, widow of 
Dr. Richard Ogle, of Demarara, an Englishman by birth. She 
was the daughter of Dr. Gallup, formerly of Woodstock, Vt., 
but who resided many years at the Hague, Netherlands, where 
he married Susan Maria Eversdyk, a Dutch lady, and where 
this daughter was born. She died in Boston, 21 November, 
1853 ; and Mr. Minot married, second, 12 December, 1854, 
Elizabeth Dawes, daughter of Thomas Dawes (H.C. 1801), 
a lawyer in Boston, and grand-daughter of Hon. Thomas 
Dawes (H.C. 1777), who is well remembered by the elder 
portion of the community as the learned judge successively of 
the Probate, the Municipal, and the Supreme courts. He left 
two children, — a son by his first wife, and a daughter by 
his second wife. 

As a citizen, many will bear testimony to his private virtues 
and his excellence in all the social relations. As a son, he was 
all that could be desired, — attentive, respectful, and affectionate. 
He was a loving and considerate husband, and the fondest father. 
Yet he was judicious in the training of his son ; and, with all his 
numerous engagements, he never neglected giving him lessons of 

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202 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1857-68. 

wisdom and Christian counsel. His domestics and neighbors 
loved aa well as respected him; for he was kind to all. lie 
had important trusts reposed in him by friends and relations, 

who knew their confidence in his ability and integrity could 
never be shaken, or their hope in him disappointed, except by 
death. Fidelity to the dictates of conscience was his ruling 
principle of action. His faith in religion was firm, and attended 
him through life, and shone forth in the perfect resignation with 
which he bowed to the appointments of Heaven. lie had all 
that man could desire to render life attractive. Placed in 
circumstances to warrant their liberal indulgence, he was happy 
in the exercise of his benevolent sympathies and a generous 
hospitality. He had numerous beloved and loving relatives 
and friends, a strong and vigorous intellect, and a heart 
disposed to employ it in the service of his fellow-man and his 
heavenly Father. Yet when the announcement was made, 
which was very sudden and unexpected to him, a few days 
previous to his death, that his life on earth was near its close, 
he was enabled to say, tf God's will be done ! " He besought 
his sorrowing friends around his bed to " trust in God, and all 
would be well." 

The funeral services of the deceased were conducted in the 
church by three clergymen of different denominations : namely, 
the Rev. William Barrows, his pastor, Trinitarian ; the Rev. 
Thomas Dawes, of South Boston, Unitarian ; and the Rev. 
Thomas Worcester, D.D., of Boston, of the New-Jerusalem 
church. The organ at which he had so often presided was 
richly draped in mourning in token of respect to his memory, 
and the choir executed an appropriate chant as a parting 
requiem. 

1839. — Rev. Augustus Russell Pope died in Somerville, 
Mass., 24 May, 1858, aged 39. He was son of Lemuel and 
Sally Belknap (Russell) Pope, and was born in Boston, 25 
January, 1819. His father was for many years president of 
the Boston Insurance Company, and died in Roxbury in 1851. 
Mr. Pope pursued his preparatory studies for admission into 
college, partly under the instruction of Mr. Daniel Greenleaf 



1857-58.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 203 

Ingraham (H.C. 1809), and partly at the Boston Latin School. 
Immediately after graduating, he entered the Divinity School 
in Cambridge, where he pursued his theological studies. Pie 
was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Kingston, 
Mass., 19 April, 1843, where he faithfully discharged his 
ministerial duties until June, 1849 ; when he resigned his 
pastoral charge, and his resignation was accepted on the 12th 
of July following. On the 25th of November in the same year, 
he was installed over the Unitarian church in Somerville. 
Here he continued to labor with great acceptance to the people 
of his charge until his death, with the exception of a few months, 
about two years since, during which period he acted as state 
agent and lecturer for the Massachusetts Board of Education. 
He was a man of great energy and industry. He possessed 
talents well adapted to the profession he had chosen. His per- 
sonal character was adorned with Christian virtues, which made 
him eminently useful as a minister, and. beloved and respected 
as a man by a large circle of acquaintances. He delivered many 
lectures before conventions of teachers, for the Board of Educa- 
tion, in which he displayed much ingenuity : one particularly, 
on telegraphs, was highly commended. He was well versed in 
physics, and had great talent for mechanics. He invented the 
electrical apparatus to alarm the inmates of a house against 
burglars. He edited or prepared the first "Educational Year 
Book," and wrote many articles for the " Massachusetts Teach- 
er." His published works were, — 1. Christian Union : a 
Discourse preached before the First Congregational Society in 
Kingston, 22 November, 1846. 2. Discourse commemorative of 
the Life and Ministry of Rev. Zephaniah Willis, delivered before 
the First Congregational Society in Kingston, 14 March, 1847. 
3. Address at the Laying of the Corner-stone of the Free 
High-school House, Somerville, 17 September, 1851. 4. An 
Address delivered at the Laying of the Corner-stone of a House 
of Worship for the Allen-street Congregational Society in the 
City of Cambridge, 25 September, 1851 (of which there were 
two editions). 5. A Sermon before the First Congregational 
Society in Somerville, 4 July, 1852. 6. A Sermon on the 



204 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1857-58. 

Burning of the First Church in Somerville, preached 25 July, 
1852. 7. Agricultural Head-work: an Address delivered be- 
fore the Middlesex Agricultural Society, 30 September, L856. 

Mr. Pope married, 2 dune, 1843, Lucy Ann, daughter 
of Col. George and Mary Meacham, of Cambridge; by whom 
he had four children, two sons and two daughters, who, with 
their mother, survived him. An aged mother, of whose declining 
years lie was a dutiful supporter, also survived him. 

1844. — Francis Lowell Batchelder, of Cambridge, 
Mass., died at Ilihernia, Fleming's Island, Fla. (whither he had 
gone for the benefit of his health), 9 February, 1858, aged 32. 
Pie Avas son of Samuel and Mary ( Montgomery) Batchelder, 
and was born in that part of Chelmsford which is now within the 
limits of the city of Lowell, 2 April, 1825. He was fitted 
for college at Thornton Academy in Saco, Me., where his 
father's family resided for several years. On leaving college, he 
entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he pursued his legal 
studies, and received his degree of bachelor of laws in 1848. 
He opened an office in Boston, and there practised his profession 
during the remainder of his life, having his residence in 
Cambridge. Of a modest and retiring disposition, he had 
no ambition to gain distinction by forensic elocpience ; but de- 
voted his attention to the business of conveyancing, a branch 
in which he attained an honorable reputation ; and no man could 
say that he had not well done the part of a faithful servant. 
Without pretension, without affectation or disguise, his numerous 
and constantly increasing circle of friends were witnesses of his 
simple and well-spent Christian life. Enemies he had none. 
His tastes were refined and cultivated ; and an ardent love of mu- 
sic, in which he was a well-skilled amateur, always afforded an 
agreeable relaxation to the routine of daily toil. He was a 
zealous and faithful officer of the church to which he belonged, 
and took a deep interest in all its concerns. He took no active 
part in politics, but faithfully served in the common-council of 
Cambridge in 1853 and 1854. He married, 2 December, 1851, 
Susan Cabot Foster, of Cambridge, and had two children, a son 
and a daughter, who, with his widow, survived him. 



1857-58.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 205 

1846. — Dr. Edward Mullikex died in Montpelier, Vt., 
24 July, 1857, aged 30. He was son of Dr. Isaac Walter and 
Alicia (Shepard) Mulliken, and was born in Stowe, Mass., 
21 January, 1827, where he resided until he was seven years of 
age, when he removed with his father's family to Lowell. He 
resided in Lowell two years, when he removed to WaJtham, 
where he passed the remainder of the time until he entered col- 
lege, excepting one year when at school at Concord. He was 
fitted for college at the school of Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Wal- 
tham (H.C. 1804). He began the study of medicine with Dr. 
Daniel Adams, of Keene, N.H. (D.C. 1797), with whom, and 
at Dartmouth, he remained one year. The subsequent two 
years he studied at the University of Xew York, where, in 1850, 
he received his decree of M.D. He was for some time the resi- 
dent physician at the Bellevue Hospital in New-York City. After 
leaving New York, he practised his profession about two years 
in Milford, Mass., when he removed to Waterbury, Vt., and 
afterwards to Montpelier. At Waterbury, he formed an ac- 
quaintance with Miss Elizabeth Robbins, an adopted daughter 
of Gen. Robbins, to whom he was married a few months before 
his death. Having enjoyed advantages equal to any the country 
afforded, he improved them to the best advantage ; w r as tho- 
roughly qualified for practice ; and, had he lived, bid fair to 
have attained to an eminent rank in his profession. He was a 
well-read scholar in general literature ; of fine taste, and gentle- 
manly in his habits and manners. He had won for himself the 
respect of all who knew him, and his early death was deeply 
regretted by his friends and the community. 

1850. — John David Jones died in New Orleans, La., 
30 November, 1857, aged 27. He was son of Jesse Rouble 
and Rebecca (Ragan) Jones, and was born in Covington, La., 
21 April, 1830. His father was born on a plantation near 
Richmond, Va., in October, 1787. An ancestor, the original 
emigrant to this country, came from Wales. His mother, who 
was daughter of John and Susanna (Battelle) Ragan, was born 
near Milledgeville, Ga., September, 1804. John Ragan was 
of" Irish origin, and the name was formerly written O'Ragan. 



206 MiCROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1857-58. 

The first of the name settled in North Carolina. The subject 
of this notice began to fit fur college at home; and completed 
his preparatory studies at an academy in Mandeville, La., under 
Felix Macmanus. On leaving college, lie entered the law 
department of the University of Louisiana, where he gradu- 
ated in 1852, and, the same year, began the practice of law in 
the Eighth Judicial District of the State of Louisiana, which he 
continued with success until his death. His disease was yellow 
jaundice. He was unmarried. He was :i young gentleman of 
upright character and generous disposition, with a promise 
of a useful and honorable life. The information of his early 
death was received with surprise and sorrow by his numerous 
friends in this part of the country. 

1854. — Frederick Wheeler died in Framingham, Mass., 
23 December, 1857, aged 25. He was the only son of Increase 
Sumner (H.C. 1826) and Elizabeth A. M. Wheeler; was 
born in Framingham, 20 April, 1832 ; and was fitted for college 
at Phillips Exeter Academy. On leaving college, he began the 
study of law with Hon. Charles Russell Train (B.U. 1837), 
with whom he remained one year. He then entered the Law 
School at Cambridge, and received his degree of bachelor of 
laws at Commencement in 1857. While ensrawed in his 
legal studies, his health became impaired, and in February, 
1857, he sailed for Port au Prince ; but, being wrecked on one 
of the Bahama Islands, he abandoned the voyage, and returned 
in March. A writer in the " Christian Register " thus beauti- 
fully sketches his subsequent life to the closing scene : " Disease 
rapidly developed, and assumed, finally, one of the several 
forms of consumption. Every means which medical skill or 
maternal love could devise to alleviate his pains was adopted ; 
and seldom has there been a more patient, uncomplaining suf- 
ferer. It was while waiting to pass for ever away that the 
strength and beauty of his character were fully manifested. In 
his native town, at Exeter, at Cambridge, everywhere, he had 
won the confidence of the persons with whom he mingled ; and 
those who knew him best loved him most. His air of manli- 
ness (as manhood came), his outspoken sincerity, and his 



1857-58.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 207 

regard for truth, have commanded the respect of persons even 
whose opinions were unlike his own. Friends, who had care- 
fully noted his moral and intellectual development, had seen 
that his sense of honor and views of honesty were those of a 
Christian gentleman ; that he gave promise of becoming a dig- 
nified and eloquent advocate ; that he would have borne to the 
bar fertility of resource, keen insight, quick discrimination, 
surpassing faithfulness to the interests of clients, and a judgment 
uncommonly mature ; and that his ambition to achieve distinc- 
tion in politics was founded on a knowledge of the constitutional 
and political history of his country : but all this was for life. 
Mortal sickness and the torture of mortal pains came upon 
him. Those who ministered to his wants, saw him for death. 
His preparation to depart ! — who of those that witnessed it 
will forget the spirit in which, amid intense bodily suffering, it 
was finished ? If the scenes l>f the last weeks of his life may 
not be related here, it is still to be written, that, from the hour 
his pastor at his request gave him the bread and wine of the 
communion-supper until the silver cord of mortality was gently 
loosed and its golden bowl was tenderly broken, his conversa- 
tion was on heaven and on the concerns of the soul. He did 
indeed say of the body, 'Let me sleep,' — such are his exact 
words, — ( let me sleep in my own native town, amid the scenes 
of my childhood and riper years, within the sound of the music 
of the bells which have so often summoned me to school and to 
church. Let my last resting-place be in some quiet spot in that 
beautiful grove which has so often been filled with my joyous 
shout. There, perhaps some friend who cherishes my memory 
will drop a flower on my grave.' On the 26th of December, in 
the first thick -falling snow of winter, classmates laid his body 
in the r quiet spot ' he had asked ; and, as the sabbath sun arose, 
women who loved him went to the whitened mound, and placed 
upon it a cross and crowns and wreaths of evergreen. And, 
ere that sun went down , there was still another offering : for 
woman, too, had dropped the expected f flower.'" 



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1 7 s 7 . — Rev. Abiel Abbot died in West Cambridge, 
Mass., 31 January, 1859, aged 93. lie had been for several 
years the only survivor of* his class; and, at the time of his 

death, was the oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College. 
lie was the son of Deacon Abiel and Dorcas (Abbot) Abbot, 
and was born in Wilton, N.II., 14 December, 17(55. He was 
a descendant of the sixth generation of George Abbot, the first 
of the name who settled in this country. His father was a 
highly respectable man, was a zealous patriot, and major of 
a regiment during the Revolution ; and, though originally a 
cooper by trade, he was chiefly occupied in farming. lie was 
remarkable for industry, equanimity, integrity, public spirit, 
and benevolence. Mr. Abbot was the eldest of twelve children, 
two of whom died in infancy. Three of the sons graduated 
at Harvard College, — Abiel, the subject of this sketch : Jacob, 
born 7 January, 1 7(>8 ; graduated in 1792; was ordained at 
Hampton Falls, N.II., 15 August, 1798; resigned in 1827; 
afterwards removed to Windham, N.II., where he was drowned 
in a pond, 2 November, 1834, while returning from divine ser- 
vice: Samuel, born 3 March, 1786; graduated in 1808; studied 
law; practised for several years in Dunstable, N.H., and Ips- 
wich, Mass. ; retired from the bar in 1818 ; removed to Wilton, 
and engaged with his brother in the manufacture of potato- 
starch on a large scale ; and on the 2d of January, 1839, was 
burnt to death in a starch-mill, which he had been instrumental 
in establishing, in J affray, N.II. 

Mr. Abbot's advantages of education in his earliest years were 
very small ; being taught chiefly by untaught teachers. When he 
was fourteen years old, he began to study Latin under the instruc- 
tion of Rev. Abel Fiske, of Wilton (H.C. 1774). In Novem- 



1858-59.J OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 209 

ber, 1780, he was admitted to Phillips Academy, in Andover, 
under the preceptorship of 'Mr. (afterwards Rev.) Eliphalet 
Pearson (H.C. 1773), where he remained until July, 1783, 
when he entered college. A few months after graduating, he 
was appointed assistant of Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton (N.J. 
1765), the principal of Phillips Academy; where he re- 
mained until July, 1789, on a salary of sixteen shillings per 
week. Immediately on leaving the academy, he began the 
study of theology. He remained at Andover, and prosecuted 
his studies chiefly by himself, with the aid of books from the 
library of the Rev. Jonathan French (H.C. 1771), and also 
from the town library. In June, 1790, he was approbated by 
the Andover Association as a candidate for the ministry, and 
preached for the first time at Amesbury, Mass. After preach- 
ing successively at Kensington, N.H., Gardner, Mass., and 
Cambridge, he was employed, in June, 1791, as a missionary in 
the district of Maine, in connection with Rev. Daniel Little, 
known as "the Apostle of the East," under the patronage of 
the Society for Propagating the Gospel. He continued in mis- 
sionary labor for five months ; and, notwithstanding the priva- 
tions and sacrifices incident to that kind of work, his time 
generally passed very pleasantly. After completing his mission- 
ary tour, he preached, in 1792, in several places, as in Nelson, 
Greenfield, and Peterborough, N.H. ; but in none of them were 
the people prepared for a settlement. In February, 1793, he 
preached at Middleton, Mass. In April, went to Penobscot, 
and preached there and at Castine until November. He was 
invited to settle in Castine, but declined the invitation. In 
December, he preached for a few Sundays in West Newbury, 
after the removal of Rev. David Tappan (H.C. 1771) to 
be Professor of Divinity in Harvard College. In January, 
1794, he was appointed tutor in Greek at Cambridge, where he 
remained one year, preaching occasionally for the neighboring 
clergy, and also supplying the pulpit in Newbury and Maiden. 
In January, 1795, he went to Coventry, Conn., on an invita- 
tion to preach there as a candidate. He officiated eight Sun- 
days, and was requested to return, but declined, as he concluded 

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thai the prevailing theological views were much more Calviniatic 
than his own, and that he should probably find little sympathy 
it' he were t<» become associated with them. In May, 17 ( .lf>, he 
preached for several Sundays in Milford, N.II. In June, at the 
urgent request of the people of Coventry, he returned to that 
place to preach as a candidate. In August, he received an 

unanimous call of the church and society to become their pastor. 
After considerable hesitation, from an apprehension that his 
views were not sufficiently in accordance with those of his 
brethren around to warrant the expectation of so peaceable a 
ministry as he desired, he accepted the imitation, and was 
ordained 28 October, 1795. There he labored faithfully, and 
with a good degree of acceptance, until about 1806, when some 
suspicions in regard to his Orthodoxy began to be excited, and 
several members felt themselves called upon to interrogate him 
directly upon the subject. The result was, that their suspicions 
were confirmed, and things were forthwith put in train for his 
ultimate separation from his charge ; but no effective measures 
were taken until 1809, when a meeting of the church was 
called, at which Mr. Abbot was invited to be present, for the 
purpose of ascertaining his peculiar views, and the points of 
difference between them. But it resulted in nothing that was 
satisfactory. In June, 1810, there was another similar meet- 
ing, and the result was alike unsatisfactory. Finally, on the 
Kith of April, 1811, a convocation of his old neighbors and 
friends (the pastors and messengers of Tolland county) assem- 
bled, and, with great unanimity, solemnly decreed that he had 
forfeited both his parish and office; and that he was severed 
from his people, and deposed from the ministry. He had com- 
mitted the old Protestant sin of regarding the Scriptures as the 
only standard of faith, and refusing to express his religious sen- 
timents in the manner prescribed by men. Being subjected to 
scrutiny, he was found upon certain difficult points to differ in 
opinion from a portion of his society, including chiefly the 
church, as distinct from the congregation. lie would not take 
the words set down for him. He would not stretch to the full 
length of the procrustean bed on which he was laid. Neither 



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Mr. Abbot nor the parish acknowledged the validity of the 
sentence, or the jurisdiction of the court ; and accordingly he 
continued to occupy the pulpit as usual, though he and they 
soon afterwards joined in calling another council from Massa- 
chusetts, which assembled on the 6th of June following, re- 
viewed the whole case, and declared Mr. Abbot's relation to his 
people unaffected by the decision of the consociation : never- 
theless, in view of the peculiar circumstances, they concluded 
that his interests, and the interests of the parish, required that 
his pastoral relation should be dissolved. In August following, 
Mr. Abbot published a statement of his difficulties at Coventry, 
which was subsequently replied to by the Association of Tolland 
county, in a pamphlet said to have been written by Dr. Bas- 
sett, of Hebron. The General Association of Connecticut, 
which assembled in June, took notice of the matter, by request 
of the Tolland Association, and made a report on the subject, of 
considerable length. 

About the 1st of September, Mr. Abbot left Coventry, 
went to Byfield, Mass., and took charge of Dummer Academy. 
Here he continued seven years and a half. In April, 1819, 
removed to North Andover, and settled on a farm, which he 
superintended for some time. In May, 1824, he removed to 
Chelmsford, where he and his daughter Sarah had a school. 
After remaining there two years and a half, he left in the autumn 
of 1826, and removed to Wilton. During his residence at By- 
field, Andover, and Chelmsford, he often supplied for the neigh- 
boring ministers, and occupied the pulpit of North Andover for 
several months in succession. While at Wilton he lived on his 
farm, and superintended it. In March, 1827, he went to preach 
at Peterborough, in the pulpit rendered vacant by the recent 
dismission of the Rev. Elijah Dunbar (II. C, 1794). About 
the first of May he received a call, which he accepted, and was 
installed 27 June. Here he continued to discharge regularly the 
duties of his office until March, 1839 ; when, on account of a 
bronchial affection, he found it necessary to retire from the active 
duties of the ministry. He, however, retained a nominal rela- 
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of a new pastor, lie thought best, from considerations of deli- 
cacy, no! to retain any longer even a nominal pastoral relation. 
For some years after he ceased to preach regularly, he occasion- 
ally supplied pulpits in the neighborhood, though for several of 

the last years he did not undertake any public service. About 
four years before his death, he left Peterborough, and resided 
with his grandson, Rev. Samuel Abbot Smith (H.C. 1849), in 
West Cambridge. 

He married, li> May, 1796, Elizabeth Abbot, daughter of 
Capt. John and Abigail Abbot, of Andover, by whom he had 
three children, all daughters : 1. Elizabeth, born 22 May, 1798 ; 
married. 1*22, Rev. John Abbot Douglass, of Waterferd, Me. 
(Bowd. C. 1814) ; died 12 October, 1823. 2. Abigail, born 17 
October, 1799, who survived her father. 3. Sarah Dorcas, 
bom 22 June, 1801; married, 1828, Samuel G. Smith, of 
Peterborough, who died 9 September, 1842, aged 43. She 
died 11 June, 1831. Dr. Abbot's wife died 6 April, 1853. 

Dr. Abbot was a man gifted with fine talents, was an able 
writer, and a very popular preacher. In 1838, the honorary 
degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by Harvard 
College. His domestic life was most happy and affectionate, 
and he pursued the even tenor of his way in all modesty, gentle- 
ness, and meekness. But the noble and heroic elements were 
also largely developed in his character. He lived a life of un- 
sullied integrity, extended far beyond the usual period allotted 
to man ; and at last departed to receive the reward of a good 
and faithful servant. 

The following is a list of Dr. Abbot's publications: 1. A 
Sermon at North Chelmsford, 4 July, 1825 ; 2. Right Hand of 
Fellowship at Canterbury; 3. Statement of the Coventry Case; 
4. Address before the Essex Agricultural Society ; 5. History of 
Andover ; 6. Genealogy of the Abbot Family. 

1788. — Dr. William Sawyer died in Boston, IS April. 
1859, aged 88. He Avas the last survivor of his class, and after 
the death of Rev. Abiel Abbot, D.D., mentioned above, was 
the oldest surviving graduate of the college. He was son of 
Dr. Micajah (H.C. 1756) and Sybil (Farnham) Sawyer, and 



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was born in Newburyport, Mass., 1 February, 1771. His 
father, Avho was an eminent physician, was born in Newbury, 
15 July, 1737 ; and died 29 September, 1815, at the age of 78 
years. His mother was daughter of Daniel Farnham, Esq. 
(H.C. 1739), a highly respectable lawyer in Newburyport, who 
Mas a native of York, Me., and died May, 1776, aged 56. Dr. 
Sawyer was fitted for college at Dummer Academy, in Newbury. 
After graduating, he studied medicine with his father, and 
practised for a few years ; but, finding the profession not suited 
to his taste, he relinquished it ; and near the close of the last 
century he removed to Boston, where he engaged in mercantile 
business, having formed a copartnership with the late Thomas 
Wigglesworth (H.C. 1793), under the firm of Sawyer and 
Wigglesworth, at No. 69, Long Wharf. This partnership was 
dissolved about six years afterwards. Dr. Sawyer continued in 
business by himself at the same place a short time, and then 
went to Europe, where he resided several years. He returned 
to Boston about 1817, and resumed business. He was very 
successful, and acquired an ample fortune. He retired from 
active business about twenty-five years before his deathi, and 
passed the last years of his life almost constantly in reading : 
and the kind of reading that occupied him was really surprising ; 
that is to say, it was hard reading, for an invalid. He espe- 
cially delighted in works on astronomy ; and he talked more on 
that than on almost any other subject. Newton's Life, Sir John 
HerschePs and Prof. Nicol's Works, were on his table; and 
Hume's too, which he was reading through. But, in alluding 
to Hume's, he said, "When I came to the part on miracles, I 
passed it over, thinking I had no more faith than I wanted." A 
friend carried to him Evelyn's Diary, as an amusing book for 
an invalid. The next time this friend saw him, he said, "Is it 
not remarkable that Evelyn should not have said a word about 
Sir Isaac Newton, living at the same time?" And then he 
talked at length of Newton, and ended with saying, what he 
often said, "He was the greatest man that has ever lived since 
Jesus Christ." Dr. Sawyer was a man of great modesty, of a 
sensitive delicacy of nature, and, from these causes, very re- 



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[1858-59. 



.-rived. But his tenderness and disinterestedness in more inti- 
mate relations were well known to those nearest him. Yet lie 
shrank from any praise or expressions of gratitude which were 
offered to him; saying, "Let that matter rest." lie was never 

married. 

1794. — Rev. Isaac Braman died in Georgetown, Mass., 
2G December, 1858, aged 88. He was son of Sylvanus and 
Experience (Blanohard) Braman, and was born in Norton, 
Mass., 5 July, 1770. He was fitted for college by Dr. Samuel 
Morey, of Norton (Y.C. 1777), and Mr. Stephen Palmer 
(H.C. 1789), afterwards minister of Needham, Mass. He 
graduated with high honors ; and, for several years before his 
death, he was the only survivor of his class. After leaving col- 
lege, he studied for the ministry with Rev. Jason Haven, of 
Dedham, Mass. (H.C. 1754), and Rev. Pitt Clark, of Norton 
(H.C. 1790). He was ordained, 7 June, 1797, pastor of the 
Second Parish in Rowley, then called New Rowley, and since 
incorporated into a toAvn by the name of Georgetown. He was 
successor of Rev. James Chandler (H.C. 1728), who died 19 
April, 1789, at the age of 83 years, and in the 58th year of his 
ministry. The parish was without a settled minister for nine 
years, and Mr. Braman was the last of sixty-four candidates 
who preached there on probation. He continued pastor of this 
society until his death, — a period of more than sixty-one years, 
— discharging the duties of his profession with great fidelity, and 
to the entire acceptance of his people, until 1842 ; when, on 
account of the infirmities of age, it was deemed necessary that 
he should be relieved from a portion of his labors ; and, in De- 
cember of that year, the Rev. Enoch Pond (Bowd. C. 1838) 
was ordained as colleague-pastor with him. Mr. Pond died in 
1846 ; and in February, 1847, Rev. John Moore Prince (Bowd. 
C. 1841) was ordained as his successor, and continued until No- 
vember, 1857, when he resigned. His last colleague and suc- 
cessor is Rev. Charles Beecher (Bowd. C. 1834). 

Mr. Braman was a man of great originality of mind, and his 
sermons evinced deep thought and profound reflection. He 
married, August, 1797, Hannah Palmer (born 12 June, 1773), 



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youngest daughter of Rev. Joseph Palmer, of Norton (H.C. 
1747). They had five children: viz., 1. Harriet, born 17 
July, 1798; married Rev. John Boardman (D.C. 1817), min- 
ister in Douglass, Mass. 2. Milton Palmer, born 6 August, 
1799 (H.C. 1819) ; now minister of the First Church in Dan- 
vers, Mass. 3. James Chandler, born 29 September, 1801 ; 
died at sea (on his passage from Calcutta for Salem, seventy-five 
days out), 5 December, 1820. 4. Adeline, born 10 July, 
1805 ; died 10 September, 1830. 5. Isaac Gordon, born 
12 March, 1813 ; is a physician in Brighton, Mass. Mr. Bra- 
man's wife died 14 August, 1835, aged 62 ; and he married for 
his second wife, in 1837, Sarah Balch, daughter of John Balch, 
Esq., of Newburyport. She survived him. 

1795. — Francis Johonnot Oliver died in Middletown, 
Conn., 21 August, 1'858, aged 80 years. He was son of 
Ebenezer and Susannah (Johonnot) Oliver, and was born in 
Boston, 10 October, 1777. His father was a merchant in Bos- 
ton, was for many years a selectman, and was warden of King's 
Chapel. He died 14 December, 1826, aged 74. His mother 
died 24 August, 1839, aged 84. Mr. Oliver was fitted for 
college at the public Latin School in Boston. After leaving col- 
lege, he entered as an apprentice the counting-room of Joseph 
Coolidge, Esq., for the purpose of qualifying himself for the 
mercantile profession. In 1798, when a war was threatened 
between this country and France, he was among the young men 
of Boston who addressed the elder Adams, offering their services. 
He read the president's response in Faneuil Hall, and was the 
first to follow the injunctions of the president : "To arms, then, 
my young friends ; to arms ! " About the same time, the Boston 
Light-Infantry Company was organized, in which he took a 
prominent part, and was elected the first ensign. He began 
business in Boston as a merchant in 1805, and established him- 
self at No. 45, Long Wharf. In 1813, he entered into copart- 
nership with Cornelius Coolidge (H.C. 1798), under the style of 
Cornelius Coolidge and Co. This partnership was dissolved four 
years afterwards. On the 13th of June, 1818, the American 
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Oliver was elected its first president. This office he continued 
to hold until the autumn of 1 *.">.">, when he resigned it, and was 
elected president of t\w City Bank, where he continued by suc- 
cessive re-elect ions until 1840 ; when he removed to Middletown, 
and there passed the remainder of his life. lie was elected a 
representative to the legislature in 1822 and 1823; and was 
a member of the Boston common-council in 1823, 1824, 1825, 
and 1828, and was its president in LS24 and 1825. In all these 
stations, he discharged their various duties with the strictest 
fidelity and integrity. In his political principles, he w r as an 
ardent federalist ; and being a gentleman of fine personal ap- 
pearance, great suavity of manner, and fluency of speech, he 
was often called upon to preside at public meetings and political 
caucuses. 

He married (first) Mary Caroline, (laughter of Richard Alsop, 
of Middletown ; and had issue : Mary Caroline, who died in in- 
fancy ; Francis Eben, who entered Harvard College, but left 
in his senior year on account of his health, and died in London, 
May, 1850, in his 37th year; Mary Alsop, who married Joseph 
W. Alsop, merchant of New York ; Richard Alsop, who died in 
infancy ; and Susan Heard. His wife died 29 August, 1819, 
aged 28 ; and he married (second) Mary Charlotte, daughter of 
Ebenezer Jackson, of Middletown (formerly of Newton, Mass.) , 
by whom he had Caroline Alsop and George Stuart Johonnot : 
the latter graduated at Harvard College in 1851. 

Mr. Oliver was a gentleman of unblemished moral character, 
and was for many years a warden of King's Chapel in Boston. 

1796. — Rev. James Kendall died in Plymouth, Mass., 
17 March, 1859, aged 89. He was the youngest son of Major 
James and Elizabeth (Mason) Kendall, and was born in Ster- 
ling, Mass., 3 November, 1769. His mother was a native of 
Lexington, Mass. In some reminiscences of his own life, writ- 
ten at the age of 84, he describes her as " a sensible and pious 
woman, of a strong mind, and a kind and generous heart ; 
discreet and faithful in the discharge of all the relative duties of 
life:" and adds, that "her children were greatly indebted to 
her for their youthful training, and their early l'eligious impres- 



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sions." He pursued his preparatory studies under the instruc- 
tion of Rev. Reuben Holcomb (Y.C. 1774), of Sterling; and 
was nearly fitted to enter college at the age of 14 : but an 
affection of his eyes, caused by a too close application to the 
study of Greek in the evening, obliged him, for several years, 
to give up the hope of obtaining a liberal education. From 
that time until the age of 21, he worked upon his father's farm 
in the summer; and, when old enough, taught school in the 
winter. During that period, in which he was accumulating a 
capital of physical health to secure a life of such remarkable 
vigor, even to his ninetieth year, his eyes recovered their 
strength; and, gladly returning to his studies, he was prepared 
to enter college in 1792. In his collegiate course, he defrayed 
a large portion of his expenses by his own exertions, by teach- 
ing school in vacation, and by other services in term-time. In 
his reminiscences, he says, "It is some satisfaction to me, in 
looking back to this period of my life as an undergraduate, to 
remember that I had no mark for delinquency in college exer- 
cises, unnecessary absences, or any misdemeanor." He held a 
high rank as a scholar, and Graduated with the second honors 
of his class ; the late Dr. Leonard Woods, of Andover, having 
the first. Immediately after leaving college, he was appointed 
assistant teacher in Phillips Academy at Andover, of which 
Mr. Mark Newman (D. C. 1793) was then the principal. 
Here he passed two years ; at the same time pursuing his theo- 
logical studies under the direction of Rev. David Tappan, 
D.D. (H. C. 1771), then Professor of Divinity in Harvard 
College, and Rev. Jonathan French (H.C. 1771), minister of 
the Second Church in Andover. He was approbated to p reach 
by the Andover Association in 1798. In that year, he was 
appointed tutor in Greek in the college, and removed to Cam- 
bridge, where he still continued his theological studies with the 
advice and aid of Dr. Tappan. He resigned his tutorship in 
1799. During his residence in Andover, he had occasionally 
px-eached there and in the vicinity. While he lived in Cam- 
bridge, he preached more frequently ; and for a short time 
supplied the pulpit of the First Church in Boston, and the First 

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Church in Quincy. He first preached at Plymouth on the 
second Sunday in October, 1799; and, having preached for 
four Sundays, on the 4th of November, 1799, he was invited to 
become the minister of that ancient parish. His answer of 
acceptance was given on Thanksgiving-Day of that year ; and 
lie was ordained 1 January, 1800. lie was the sole pastor of 
the society for thirty-eight years. On the 3d of January, 
1838, the infirmities of age having begun to come upon him, 
the Rev. George Ware Briggs (15. U. 1825) was ordained as 
his colleague; where he continued until 15 December, 1852. 
Rev. Henry Lewis Myrick was his colleague from 21 Septem- 
ber, 1853, to 21 September, 1854 ; and Rev. George S. Ball 
from 8 April, 1855, to 8 April, 1857. On the 5th of Jan- 
uary, 1859, Rev. Edward Henry Hall (H.C. 1851) was or- 
dained as his colleague, and is now sole pastor of the society. 
After the settlement of a colleague, Dr. Kendall preached fre- 
quently, for a number of years, in his own pupit ; in the pulpits 
of those with whom he was accustomed to exchange ; and in 
comparatively distant places, during several journeys into vari- 
ous parts of the country. He preached his semi-centennial ser- 
mon, 3 January, 1850. He never took a formal leave of the 
pulpit, and never wished to bid it farewell. He preached for 
the last time on Thanksgiving-Day, November, 1857. One of 
his last public services was at the ordination of his associate 
minister on the 5th of January, 1859. He stood in his pulpit 
again to offer a fervent prayer at the close of the first services 
of the same pastor on Sunday, 9 January ; and yet once more 
to take the same part at the close of service, Sunday, 17 Janu- 
ary ; and then his public ministry was ended. He was con- 
nected with his parish nearly twenty years longer than any of 
his predecessors. He was a man of peace, order, integrity, 
faith, and devotion. It is one of the strongest proofs of his 
true piety, that during a period of more than fifty years, when 
children have been born around him to grow up to mature age, 
and in their turn to be surrounded by children and grandchil- 
dren, amongst them all, no one was known to have breathed a 
word derogatory to him as a Christian or a man. Genial and 



1858-59.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 219 

cheerful, lie enjoyed every bright hour : humble and trustful 
toward his God, he met submissively the discipline of sorrows. 
His experiences were the varied ones of the lot of humanity ; 
and he accepted and used them with the conscientious purpose 
to be obedient to the truth, and loyal to duty. Many have 
seen him in his hospitable home ; many have seen him in the 
street, moving with the steady step of a true man ; many have 
seen him at their firesides, as the visitor, the adviser, and con- 
soler ; many have seen him in the church, and listened to his 
honest discourse, and his prayers of singular richness and 
fervor : and, of all these, many will hold him in remembrance 
as one they trusted, and affectionately revered. In 1825, the 
honorary degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him 
by Harvard College. He married, first, June, 1800, Sarah 
Poor, daughter of Deacon Daniel Poor, of Andover, by whom 
he had six children ; of whom one died at birth, another at the 
age of thirteen days, and another at three years of age : the 
remaining three survived him. She died 13 February, 1809, 
in the thirty-third year of her age. He married, second, 
17 June, 1810, Sally Kendall, daughter of Deacon Paul Ken- 
dall, of Templeton, Mass., who also was the mother of six 
children, five of whom survived him : the other died at Madi- 
son, Wis., 9 March, 1853, in the thirty-fifth year of his 
age. She died 5 February, 1845, at the age of 65. She was 
a very intelligent person, — of great strength and loveliness of 
character. In his reminiscences, Dr. Kendall says, "I have 
been singularly favored in my domestic relationships. Although 
not exempt from the trials and changes to which every man of 
my age, and at the head of a large family, is destined in an 
earthly life, I cannot be sufficiently thankful to the Father of 
an infinite mercy for the comfort, satisfaction, and consolation 
I have enjoyed during the whole period of my connection with 
a family." His first wife he describes as "a person of an amia- 
ble disposition, faithful and affectionate as a wife, and tender 
and devoted as a mother." Of his last wife he says, " She was 
a person of great discretion, sound judgment, and of a pure 
and pious mind. Like her Divine Master, she was made perfect 



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through suffering." The following is :i list of Dr. Kendall's 
publications, with the dates of their delivery : 1 . Discourse upon 
the Character of Washington, delivered at the request of the 
Town of Plymouth, 22 February, 1800. 2. Sermon on the 
Death of Mrs. Jane Robbins, 21 September, 1800. 3. Sermon 
on the Death of Col. George Watson, 14 December, 1800. 
4. Sermon on the Death of Rev. David Tappan, D.D., 4 Sep- 
tember, 1803. 5. Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. Caleb 
Holmes, at Dennis, 2 January, 1805. 6. Sermon before the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 2 June, 1806. 
7. Sermon before the Society for propagating the Gospel among 
the Indians, 7 November, 1811. 8. Sermon before the Hu- 
mane Society, 8 June, 1813. 9. Sermon at the Ordination 
of Rev. Oliver Haywood at Barnstable, 8 November, 181.3. 
10. Sermon in the "Liberal Preacher"' for March, 1828, on 
Man's Accountableness to his Creator, and a Future Retribu- 
tion. 11. Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. Hersey B. Good- 
win, at Concord, Mass., 17 February, 1830. 12. Sermon at 
the Ordination of his Son, Rev. James A. Kendall, at Med- 
field, Mass., 10 November, 1830. 13. Charge at the Ordina- 
tion of Rev. Chandler Robbins as Minister of the Second 
Church, Boston, 4 December, 1833. 14. Sermon on the 
"Wreck of the Brig- "Regulator," 14 February, 1836. 15. Semi- 
centennial Sermon, 1 January, 1850. 

1799. — Parker Cleaveland died in Brunswick, Me., 
15 October, 1858, aged 78. He was son of Dr. Parker and 
Elizabeth (Jackman) Cleaveland, and was born in Rowley 
(Byfleld Parish), Mass., 15 January, 1780. His father was 
son of Rev. John Cleaveland, and was born in Chebacco, parish 
of Ipswich, which is now the town of Essex, Mass. Rev. John 
Cleaveland entered Yale College ; and, wdien in his senior year, 
he was, with another, expelled for embracing the doctrine of the 
" New Lights." Prof. Cleaveland's father was fitted for col- 
lege ; but the war broke out, and he relinquished his intention 
of obtaining a collegiate education, studied medicine, became a 
surgeon in the revolutionary army, and was stationed at Cam- 
bridge. Prof. Cleaveland w r as fitted for college at Dummer 



1858-59.] OF HARVAED COLLEGE. 221 

Academy, in Newbury, Mass., under Rev. Isaac Smith (H.C. 
1767). He taught school in Boxford, Mass., in his sophomore 
year, and in Burlington or Wilmington, Mass., in his junior 
year. Immediately after his graduation, he entered, as a law 
student, the office of Ichabod Tucker, of Haverhill, Mass. (H.C. 
1791), where he remained one year. In the middle of the 
year 1800, he began teaching a school at York, Me. ; and, at 
the same time, was clerk in the office of Daniel Sewall, Esq., 
the clerk of the Supreme Court ; was with him at the 
courts, and continued the study of law. Here he remained 
until the autumn of 1803 ; when he was appointed tutor in 
mathematics at Harvard College, which office he held until Com- 
mencement in 1805, when he resigned it in consequence of' 
having received an invitation to fill a professorship in Bowdoin 
College, which he accepted ; and he was installed, 23 October, 
1805, as professor of mathematics and natural philosophy; the 
college then having been in operation but a single year. The 
duties of this professorship, together with those of lecturer on 
chemistry and mineralogy, he discharged with distinguished 
ability until 1828, when it was deemed expedient to separate 
the departments of mathematics and natural philosophy, and 
establish a distinct professorship of chemistry and mineralogy. 
Mr. William Smyth, the distinguished professor of mathematics, 
was raised to that department, and Mr. Cleaveland was installed 
in the new professorship of chemistry, mineralogy, and natural 
philosophy. This position he occupied until his death, having 
acquired a world-wide reputation, and a success seldom attained 
by a scientific instructor. He was thus connected with the col- 
lege for a period of fifty-three years, during which he devoted 
the whole powers of his mind and the energy of his body to the 
advancement of his favorite studies ; and no man in the country 
has done more to inspire a passion and create an interest and 
knowledge of the details of the sciences which he taught. He 
spent six hours a day in his laboratory, recitation and lecture 
room, and was frequently engaged for sixteen of the twenty-four 
hours. The college never bought any minerals. James Bow- 
doin gave about five hundred specimens : the rest have been 



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collected either by Prof. Cleaveland's persona] labor, or by the 
exchange of specimens which he obtained, and they now amount 

to upwards of seven thousand, lie became widely known in 
the United States, in Great Britain, and on the continent of 
Europe, by his great work on mineralogy and geology, which 
he published in L816, in one volume, and in 1822, a second 
edition, in two volumes. He had contemplated publishing a 
third edition ; but his eyesight, which had failed by incessant 
application, deprived him of the honor, and the world of the ben- 
efit, of his increased learning and experience from the proposed 
work. His high reputation as a lecturer is spread all over the 
country by a succession of graduates of the college, who will 
transmit the praise of his learning and eloquence, and will rise 
up with one accord, and bless his name and memory. 

On the 9th of August, 1809, Mr. Cleaveland was elected a 
member of tfce American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; on 
the 9th of September, 1814, a corresponding member of the 
Academy of National Sciences at Philadelphia; on the 17th of 
April, 1818, a member of the American Philosophical Society 
at Philadelphia ; on the 10th of November, the same year, an 
honorary member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; on the 30th of January, 1819, an hono- 
ary member of the Mineralogical Society at Jena ; on the 4th 
of October, the same year, an honorary member of the Miner- 
alogical Society of Dresden ; on the 26th of April, 1823, a 
member of the Society of Natural Science at Halle, in Ger- 
many ; on the 16th of December of the same year, a member 
of the Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg; on the 11th 
of June, 1834, an honorary member of the Literary and 
Historical Society at Quebec. He was also a fellow of the 
Wernerian Society at Edinburgh, and the Geological Society of 
London ; and was for many years the corresponding secretary 
of the Maine Historical Society. In 1824, the honorary degree 
of doctor of laws was conferred upon him by Bowdoin Col- 
lege. 

Mr. Cleaveland married, 9 September, 1806, Martha, 
daughter of Levi and Martha (Ball) Bush, of Boston, she 



1858-59.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 223 

being then but nineteen years old ; and they had issue : First, 
Moses Parker, born 6 July, 1807 (Bowd. C. 1827) ; married, 
21 October, 1834, Martha Richardson, of Duxbury, Mass., 
and settled as a physician in Natick, Mass., where he died 
7 October, 1840. Second, James Bovvdoin, born 17 January, 
1809 (Bowd. C. 1828) ; settled as a lawyer at Passadumkeag, 
Me. ; married, 13 March, 1834, Lucinda P. McKinney, of 
•Gray, Me. ; and died in 1854. Third, George, born 22 Sep- 
tember, 1810; and died 11 May, 1811. Fourth, Martha Ann 
Bush, born 16 July, 1812 ; married, 30 November, 1837, 
Hon. Peleg Whitman Chandler, of Boston (Bowd. C. 1834). 
Fifth, Elizabeth Abigail, born 4 September, 1814; married, 
1(3 November, 1847, George W. Woodhouse, of Dover, N.H. 
Sixth, Mary Ackley, born 27 September, 1816. Seventh, 
John Appleton, born 29 March, 1819 (Bowd. C. 1840) ; 
married, 31 December, 1844, Catharine Alexander, of Bruns- 
wick. Eighth, Nathan Smith (Bowd. C. 1840), is a druggist 
in Brunswick. 

In private life, Professor Cleaveland was universally respected 
for his unblemished moral character, his genial and affable dis- 
position as a husband, a father, and a friend, and as a public- 
spirited and generous citizen. His wife died about 1852. 

1802. — Solomon Kidder Livermore died in Milford, 
N.H., 10 July, 1859, aged 80. He was the youngest son of 
Rev. Jonathan (H.C. 1760) and Elizabeth (Kidder) Livermore, 
and was born in Wilton, N.H., 2 March, 1779. His father 
was born in Northborough, Mass., 7 December, 1739 ; was or- 
dained at Wilton, 14 December, 1768 ; resigned his pastoral 
relation, February, 1777; and died in Wilton, 20 July, 1809, 
aged 69. His mother was a native of Billerica, Mass. Mr. 
Livermore was fitted for college at Mr. Pemberton's academy in 
Billerica, and entered the sophomore class in 1799. He grad- 
uated with a high reputation for scholarship in a class famed for 
eminent talent. After leaving college, he taught the grammar- 
school in Cambridge for one season. Having chosen the pro- 
fession of law, he pursued his preparatory studies in the office 
of Oliver Crosby, Esq., of Dover, N.H. (H.C. 1795). On 



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his admission t<> the bar, he opened an office in Dover, where lie 
practised for ;i short time; but, in L807, he removed to Milford, 
where he resided during the remainder of his life, pursuing the 
practice of the profession until he attained the age of 70 years, 
when he relinquished it, although he continued t<> transact busi- 
ness relating to the settlement of estates for his neighbors until 
near the end of his life. lie was held in high estimation by the 
citizens of the town where he passed so large a portion of his life,, 
who all regarded him as an honest man, and a sincere, devoted 
Christian, whom no temptation, no motives of self-interest, could 
turn from the straightforward path of duty. In the whole 
course of his long life, not a stain dimmed the pure lustre of his 
character for integrity. Having no ambition for political office or 
power, his extensive attainments did not achieve so Avide a reputa- 
tion as they might have won. Except wdien the merited confi- 
dence of his townsmen selected him to represent them in the state 
legislature, he uniformly declined to become a candidate for office ; 
and yet no man was more strongly sensible of the grave duties 
of an American citizen than he. He was a devoted student of 
the Bible ; and its pure precepts seemed to have stamped their 
own beauty upon his life, his thoughts, and his conduct. Far 
more anxious to promote the good of others than his own interest, 
he always endeavored to bring to an amicable adjustment the 
controversies among his neighbors. No one had a more generous 
heart or a more open home than he ; and neither his benevolence 
nor his public spirit was ever appealed to in vain. His death 
was in harmony with his life. In the calm, still beauty of a 
bright summer's Sunday, in the quiet of his home, with its famil- 
iar and beloved objects and associations, the hymn of divine 
praise scarcely cold upon his aged lips, his life gently ebbed 
away, and his soul went forth to meet its Maker. 

He married, G July, 1810, Abigail Adkins, youngest daugh- 
ter of Nathaniel Jarvis, of Cambridge. She survived him. 
The offspring of this union were four sons and four daughters ; 
of whom two — the eldest son and daughter — died early, two 
— the next oldest son and youngest daughter — died after 
attaining maturity, and four survived their father. 



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1802. — Rev. Iciiabod Nichols died in Cambridge, Mass., 
2 January, 1859, aged 74. He was the fourth son of Capt. 
Ichabod and Lydia (Ropes) Nichols, of Salem, Mass., and was 
born in Portsmouth, N.H., during the temporary residence of 
the family at that place, 5 July, 1784 ; but removed with his 
parents to Salem when he was but five or six years old. He 
was fitted for college at the Salem High School ; and graduated, 
at the age of eighteen, with the highest honors of his class, — a 
class remarkable for eminent talent. Immediately after leaving 
college, he began the study of theology with his pastor, Rev. 
Thomas Barnard, D.D. (H.C. 1766). In 1805, he was ap- 
pointed tutor in mathematics in Harvard College ; a position he 
held until 1809, pursuing in the mean time his theological stud- 
ies. Here his opportunities for a higher cultivation were greatly 
enlarged ; and his strong and acute intellectual powers could not 
fail to be richly improved in the society of Rev. Henry Ware, 
John Quincy Adams, Levi Frisbie, John Farrar, and Ashur 
Ware, who were all associated with him in the instruction of 
the college. In January, 1809, he preached his first sermon to 
the First Congregational Church and Society in Portland, Me. ; 
and continued to preach for the three following Sundays. On 
the 27th of February, the parish concurred unanimously with the 
church in giving him a call, and voting him a salary of twelve 
hundred dollars ; which was much larger than any minister re- 
ceived in the town or state (then a district) , and which was not 
changed during his whole ministry. The venerable Deacon Free- 
man, then the leading man in the parish and the town, speaking 
of the occasion, exultingly said, "The meeting of the parish 
was full and respectable ; and it is a pleasing circumstance, that 
there was not a hand raised nor a word spoken against the sub- 
ject of either vote." The invitation he accepted 20 March, and 
he was ordained as colleague with the Rev. Samuel Deane, 
D.D. (H.C. 1760), 7 January, 1809, the third pastor of that 
ancient church, organized in 1727, the first in the state east of 
Kennebunk. The Rev. Thomas Smith (H.C. 1720), the first 
pastor, was born in Boston, 10 March, 1702 ; was ordained, 
and the church formed, 8 March, 1727 ; and he continued in the 

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pastoral office until his death, 23 May, 179"), at the age of 93, 
and in the .sixty-ninth year of his pastorate. Rev. Samuel 
Deane, born in Dcdhain, Mass., 30 August, 17:53, was ordained 
as his colleague, 17 October, 17G4; and this was the only reli- 
gious society in Portland until 1788, when the Second Parish was 
established. Dr. Deane's pastorate continued fifty years ; and 
was closed only by his death, 12 November, 1814, at the age of 
81 years. With him Dr. Nichols was associated five years and 
five months ; and his connection with the society, which was ter- 
minated by his death, extended to more than forty-nine years. 
He was sole pastor from the decease of Dr. Deane, diligently 
and faithfully doing his Master's work, until 31 January, 1855 ; 
when the present pastor, Rev. Horatio Stebbins (II. C. 1848), 
was settled as his colleague. Dr. Nichols was then desirous of 
withdrawing entirely from his official station, on account of the 
infirm state of his health : he wished entire repose from the 
cares of office. But the parish was unwilling to dissolve a con- 
nection which had existed so long and so harmoniously ; and he 
consented to retain his official relation, relieved from all duty 
and responsibility connected with it. On his retirement, a few 
members of his society tendered to him an annuity of five hun- 
dred and fifty dollars for the remainder of his life ; but this 
tribute to his services and worth, so justly deserved and so 
freely offered, he declined, from that innate sense of delicacy 
which governed all his conduct. At the time he relinquished 
his duties he removed from Portland to Cambridge, which was 
subsequently his place of residence. This brief review of the 
history of the First Parish in Portland exhibits the striking fact, 
of an uninterrupted ministration in the parochial office for a 
period of more than a hundred and thirty-one years, not an 
hour without a pastor ; that its three deceased ministers entered 
young upon their ministry, and died in office ; and that each has 
labored with a colleague. Such a history, in connection with 
the protracted pastorates, the three averaging fifty-six years each, 
cannot, we think, be paralleled in the annals of the church. 

"Dr. Nichols," says an eminent writer who knew him long 
and intimately, " not only discharged the duties peculiar to his 



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station with fidelity, — and in which, with advancing years, he 
grew more earnest and spiritual, both in his discourses and 
devotional exercises, — but he took an active part in the philan- 
thropic and reformatory movements of the day. He was one 
of the earliest and most devoted friends of the temperance 
cause, of the Bible society, the Sunday school, and of benevo- 
lent institutions. He did not permit his mind to grow rusty 
amidst the various and e very-day duties of parochial life, but 
devoted all his leisure hours to study. He published, in 1830, 
a work on natural theology, which is considered as classical 
authority in the theological schools. He kept up not only with 
the theological progress of the age, but also with the wonderful 
advance in scientific attainment, which, in the last half-century, 
has almost created a new world. Nothing in the way of dis- 
covery escaped his vigilant observation, from the theories 
broached by visionary enthusiasts to the profound problems of 
La Place, Cuvier, Bowditch, and Peirce. In his latter days, 
after leaving his parochial duties, he had the highest gratifica- 
tion in a free intercourse with Agassiz upon his wonderful 
developments in the animal kingdom. From this new source of 
knowledge, his mind received a fresh impulse; and he was able to 
add to his great work (now in press, and to be published in a 
few weeks, entitled "Hours with the Evangelists," on the con- 
nection of the old and new dispensations) new proofs and illus- 
trations of the being and attributes of God. He was equally 
familiar with the writings of German and English scholars, and 
penetrated with a clear discrimination and an unswerving love 
of truth into the prevailing fallacies of the philosophies of the 
day ; and was able rightly to divine the word of truth. It is 
impossible that a mind naturally keen and comprehensive, and 
which was so thoroughly furnished by education and reflection, 
should not be full and instructive on all the topics which come 
under discussion among scholars and in the social circle. This 
copiousness of general knowledge gave him great power and 
interest in conversation, which few have surpassed. No one 
could be in his society, for even a brief time, without being 
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228 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1858-59. 

edge, and his ease and felicity in the communication of it. Yet, 
with these rare powers, he was perfectly simple, unaffected, and 
unpretending - . No man was farther from conceit and unpretend- 
ing display. He loved to talk, not for the sake of talking, but 
to communicate instruction ; to impart from his accumulated 
stores to the pleasure and benefit of others. These qualities 
made his society to be sought, and, wherever he was known, to 
be valued as a ripe and good scholar, an able and sound theo- 
logian, and a most instructive companion. We may apply to 
him, with great appropriateness, a truth happily expressed by 
Lord Coke, who said, 'When a great and learned man dyeth, 
much learning dyeth with him.' Though he has left a valuable 
legacy in his last great work, which he fondly called the round- 
ing-off of his life, and is the complement of his learning and 
best thought, yet there was that in his mind and heart, as in 
every wise man, which cannot be stamped on the printed page : 
it dies with the possessor. The beautiful expression, the mild 
and gentle demeanor, the sensitive appreciation and communi- 
cation of the good and true, the noble example of a virtuous 
and devoted life, — these all pass on, and leave but their subtle 
fragrance in the memory of surviving friends." 

Dr. Nichols was early elected a member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he held the office of 
vice-president. In 1821, he received from Bowdoin College 
the honorary degree of doctor of divinity, and the same from 
Harvard in 1831. It is worthy of note, that the year 1821 was 
the beoinnino- of the academical honors at Bowdoin ; and a wise 
as well as liberal besrinninij it was. The clerical distinction was 
given (and to them confined) to the two distinguished lights of 
the Portland pulpit, — Ichabod Nichols and Edward Pay son ; 
regarded, no doubt, throughout the state as the representative 
heads of the two opposing sections of its congregational body. 

Dr. Nichols married first, probably in the spring of 1811, 
Dorothea F. Oilman, daughter of Gov. John Taylor Gilman, 
of Portsmouth, N.H. They had four children, all sons, of 
whom two survived him ; viz., 1. John Taylor Gilman, who 
died within about a year of his birth. 2. George Henry, born 



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26 August, 1814 (H.C. 1833) ; a physician in Standish, 
Me. 3. John Taylor Gilman, born 24 April, 1817 (H.C. 
1836) ; settled as a clergyman in Saco, Me. 4. Charles, 
born 12 April, 1819, and died the same year. Dr. Nichols's 
wife died 17 April, 1831 ; and he married for his second wife, 
3 May, 1832, Martha Salisbury Higginson, daughter of Stephen 
Higginson, Esq., of Cambridge. She survived him. 

1803. — William Draper, of Pontiac, Mich., died at the 
Island of Mackinaw, 9 August, 1858, aged 78. He was son of 
James and Lois (Battle) Draper, and was born in that part 
of Dedham Avhich is now within the limits of Dover, Mass., 
12 February, 1780. He was fitted for college partly by Rev. 
Nathaniel Emmons, D.D. (Y.C. 1767), of Franklin, Mass., 
and partly by Rev. Thomas Thacher (H.C. 1775), of Dedham. 
On leaving college, he went to Concord, Mass., and entered as 
a student-at-law in the office of John Leighton Tuttle (H.C. 
1796). Having completed his legal studies and been admitted 
to the bar, he opened an office in Marlborough, Mass., where he 
acquired an extensive practice, and was quite successful as a 
lawyer. For ten years he was president of the Middlesex bar. 
In 1832, he removed to Nashua, N.H., where he remained until 
the spring of 1833 ; when he went to Michigan, established 
himself in Pontiac, and was a citizen of that place during the 
remainder of his life. He occupied a prominent and distinguished 
position in the legal profession ; but was no politician, and held 
but very few offices during his life. At the time Congress passed 
the enabling act for the admission of Michigan into the Union, 
a convention was called under that act, that the people might de- 
termine whether they would accede to the proposition of Con- 
gress or not. Mr. Draper was the president of the convention. 
This "was the first one, which rejected the dishonorable proposi- 
tion of a democratic congress ; and Mr. Draper always looked 
with great satifaction on the part he took in that body of men. 
That was an honorable post, and right honorable was the de- 
cision . 

Mr. Draper was president of the bar of Oakland county, 
Mich., for twenty years, and held the office at the time of his 



230 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1858-59. 

decease. While lew of the high earthly honors were bestowed 
upon him, he had, what was Tar better, the deserved esteem and 
respect of every one who knew him. lie was a Christian gen- 
tleman, scrupulously upright, and for twenty-five years was an 
exemplary member of the Congregational church in Pontiac. 
He retained his mental faculties to an extraordinary degree. 
About two years before his death, there was a case pending in the 
Circuit Court of Michigan, in which he had a personal interest. 
He wrote out, and read to the court, a brief and an argument of 
marked power and great research ; and was successful at last. 

Mr. Draper was famed for his love of field sports ; and it was 
his delight, in the last years of his life, to hunt and fish in and 
around the beautiful lakes that are so numerous in the vicinity 
of his late residence ; and the principal reason of his visit 
to Mackinac, where he died, was his desire to gratify his taste 
in this respect. He went with several acquaintances ; and had 
been there only a few days, wdien he was taken sick ; and, before 
any of his family could reach there after hearing of his illness, 
his spirit had departed to another and better world. 

A writer in Porter's "New-York Spirit of the Times," in 
announcing the death of Mr. Draper, says, "He was ever 
active and assiduous through his early life, and until he had 
acquired a competence in the practice of his arduous profession ; 
but was never so thoroughly absorbed in it, nor in the acqui- 
sition of wealth, as to neglect his gun and his rod. To these 
he gave a liberal share of his time, with a keenness of relish 
which evinced that the love of sport was natural and inborn. 
He was not an indiscriminate sportsman ; for he cared but little 
for the rifle or the hound, and looked upon the deer-chase with 
no favorable eye. His first loves were the fowling-piece and the 
well-trained pointer and spaniel ; his chosen sphere of enjoyment 
the rich summer corn-field, or the brown .hill-side covers of 
autumn. Scolopax was the bird of his choice ; and, more than 
half a century ago, the echoes of his gun, and the cheerful call 
to his w r ell-trained dogs, were wont to ring through the valleys of 
the old Bay State. The love of sport was a marked feature 
in the life of the deceased, from which his highest earthly enjoy- 



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1858-59.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 231 

merits were derived ; so marked and influential indeed, that 
when, after a time, mercenary pot-hunters had depopulated the 
region about his house, that circumstance influenced him in no 
slight deo-ree in making choice of a home where the woodcock, 
snipe, plover, partridge, quail, and prairie-hen were more abun- 
dant, and less sought after for gain. How fresh in the mind of 
the writer of this notice, now in middle life, is the recollection, 
when a mere boy, of the exploits of the deceased over the backs of 
poor old Sport and Sancho, and the almost boundless admiration 
with which we saw him bring down thirty-eight woodcocks in 
succession on the Southborough meadow, without missing a bird ; 
killing more than once with both barrels ! In his earlier days, 
while he yet made Massachusetts his home, his associates, drawn 
to him by similar tastes, were to be found among the liberal and 
prominent men throughout that state. Of such were Hon. S. P. 
P. Fay, some years deceased, and long judge of probate for the 
county of Middlesex ; his son, Hon. Richard S. Pay ; Hon. 
Franklin Dexter, late of Boston ; and very many others, whose 
names, once familiar, have now escaped the writer. Having 
changed his residence to Michigan, Mr. Draper continued the 
same keen and indefatigable sportsman, with little change; 
except that, game being more plenty and in greater variety, his 
days in the field were more frequent. He found fewer wood- 
cocks, which, at the time of his arrival, had just begun to fre- 
quent the bottom-lands of the rivers, and the old French farms of 
Wayne and Macomb ; but in their places he found the prairie- 
hen, the wild-turkey, the partridge and snipe, more abundant. 
He brought with him his small but excellent and well-chosen 
armament of guns, his choice stock of ammunition, and his 
favorite and reliable old dogs, which, in a short time, made 
themselves at home in their new sphere. The rod divided the 
sway with the gun in the sport-life of the deceased, and he was 
alike skilful and successful in both. If the day was bad for 
shooting, it was pretty sure to be good for fishing ; or, if the 
companions who offered happened not to be devotees of old 
Izaak, the game-bag and the long tramp were all the same to 
him. Sport-love with the deceased did not arise from a mere 



232 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1858-59. 

spirit of adventure, combined with the exuberance of wealth and 
of animal spirits : it was a principle of his being, which grew, 
rather than failed, with advancing age ; and yielded to no in- 
firmity of body short of absolute sickness. Indeed, he may be 
said to have almost died in harness ; for his last trip was under- 
taken by him that he might enjoy the choice sport of trout-fish- 
ing around the picturesque and beautiful Island of Mackinaw, at 
a time when declining years and failing strength had long since 
warned him that the hours upon the earth for him were short and 
few. Thus, with the life of a thorough sportsman, ended that 
of an honorable, useful man, and a sincere and exemplary 
Christian." 

Mr. Draper married, in 1810, Harriet Eliza Payne, a 
daughter of Major Phineas Payne, of Concord, Mass., of revo- 
lutionary memory. They had six children, — four sons and two 
daughters ; namely, William, Charles, Albert F., James, 
Eliza C, and Ann M. : all survived their father except James, 
who was the youngest child. Charles graduated at Harvard 
College in 1833, and became a lawyer in Pontiac. 

1805. — Rev. Ebenezer Hubbard died near Nashville, 
Tenn., 2 September, 1858, aged 74. He was son of Rev. 
Ebenezer (H.C. 1777) and Abigail (Glover) Hubbard, and 
was born in Marblehead, Mass., 12 November, 1783. His 
father was born in Concord, Mass., 22 May, 1758; was or- 
dained at Marblehead, 1 January, 1783 ; and died 15 December, 
1800, aged 42. His mother was daughter of Col. Jonathan 
Glover, of Marblehead. Mr. Hubbard was fitted for college at 
the public classical school or academy in Marblehead. After 
leaving college, he studied divinity with Rev. Timothy Flint, 
of Lunenburg, Mass. (H.C. 1800), who married his sister 
Abigail. He was ordained pastor of the Second Church in 
Newbury, Mass., 11 May, 1809. This pastoral relation was 
dissolved 16 October, 1810; and he was installed over the 
church in Middleton, Mass., 27 November, 1816 ; resigned his 
charge, 29 April, 1828 ; was installed at Lunenburg, 10 De- 
cember, 1828. He was always a, Trinitarian, 5s he declared, 
and, as he called himself, a moderate Calvinist ; but was very 



1858-59.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 233 

liberal in his feelings towards Unitarians, and would not in- 
frequently exchange with clergymen of that denomination. In 
consequence of this, a most unrighteous attempt was made, by 
some of the more rigid Orthodox, to prevent his settlement at 
Lunenburg, by circulating reports injurious to his moral charac- 
ter. They did not, however, succeed in their plot. The fol- 
lowing extract from an article in the " Christian Examiner " for 
March, 1831, gives a history of this affair : — 

"Rev. Mr. Hubbard, a minister of acknowledged Orthodox 
sentiments, and late pastor of the church in Middleton, was 
invited to a re-settlement in Lunenburg. It was generally 
known to his ministerial brethren, that he was in the practice of 
exchanging with Unitarians. This circumstance alone induced 
some Orthodox preachers in the vicinity of Lunenburg to 
make great exertions to prevent his installation. They went 
to Andover, and earnestly solicited from the Orthodox min- 
isters in the neighborhood of Middleton some information 
derogatory to the character of Mr. Hubbard. False and slan- 
derous reports were invented by an individual in Middleton, 
and communicated to an Orthodox minister in Danvers, and 
conveyed by him to the principal agent in this unrighteous 
work. Rev. Mr. Payson, of Leominster, having obtained the 
desired misrepresentations, went into Lunenburg, communicated 
them to an influential family, and requested them to put them 
in circulation, and conceal the name of the informer. He 
affirmed that Mr. Hubbard was a bad man, brought up his 
children to swear, and would prove a cui'se to the society if 
they retained him as their pastor. Such reports threw the 
parish into consternation, and reached the ears of the pastor 
elect. He proceeded immediately to the source of the evil, and 
eventually dragged to light the individuals concerned. By the 
terrors of the civil law, he compelled them to confess their 
wickedness, and agency in the base understanding." 

Mr. Hubbard continued pastor of the church in Lunenburg 
until 20 November, 1833, when his connection with the society 
was dissolved. He studied medicine, but never practised regu- 
larly, except, perhaps, in Boxford, or rather in Lunenburg, 

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234 NECBOLOGY OF ALUMNI [1858-59. 

while he was a pastor there. In June, 1838, he removed 
to the West, and taught school for awhile in Trenton, Tenn. ; 
and afterwards in Paris, Tenn. In 1843 or 1844, he re- 
moved to Fulton county, Ky., and settled on a farm in 
Hickman, which a son, dying, left him, and which he called 
"Clergyman's Retreat." For some years he pursued the farm- 
ing business, overseeing it, and attending to his garden : while 
in his leisure hours he read books and wrote sermons ; preach- 
ing sometimes, but having no charge. He liked the investiga- 
tion of literary and scientific subjects. He gradually, for three 
or four years before his death, became irritable and maniacal 
under a disease of the brain (probably softening), until, in the 
spring of 1858, his mind was completely gone, so that he did 
not know his own wife and children ; and, becoming very furi- 
ous, his sons took him, in June, 1858, to the 'state asylum for 
the insane, six miles out of Nashville, Tenn., — a fine in- 
stitution ; where he died, not having had, during his stay there, 
one lucid moment. 

Mr. Hubbard married, 10 June, 1808, Charlotte, daughter 
of Major Joseph Swazey, of Ipswich, Mass. They had nine 
children, six sons and three daughters, of whom three sons and 
two daughters are living. His wife died 30 October, 1858, in 
the seventy-fifth year of her age, having survived her husband 
not quite two months. The remains of Mr. Hubbard were 
conveyed to Hickman, and deposited in the family cemetery 
with his wife's, at "Clergyman's Retreat," owned by his son 
Charles. 

1807. — Joshua Prescott died in Reading, Mass., 1 
January, 1859, aged 78. He was son of Deacon John and 
Martha (Abbot) Prescott; was born in Westford, Mass., 15 
November, 1780 ; and was the last surviving member of their 
family, which consisted of six sons and one daughter, who 
lived to mature age. Three of the sons graduated at Harvard 
College, — Samuel in 1799, Aaron in 1814, and the subject of 
this notice. He was fitted for college at Westford Academy. 
After graduating, he taught school in Saco, Me. He studied 
law with Judge James Prescott, of Groton, Mass. (H.C. 1788). 



1858-59.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 235 

He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1811, and imme- 
diately opened an office in Reading. He afterwards removed to 
Lynn, Mass., where he remained a few months ; then returned 
to Reading, where he continued actively engaged in the practice 
of his profession until a few yeai*s before his decease. In 
1824, he compiled a digest of the probate-laws of Massachu- 
setts, which was considered a valuable work, and had an exten- 
sive circulation. In 1827 and 1828, he was chosen repre- 
sentative to the state legislature. Being much interested in 
agricultural pursuits, he superintended and cultivated success- 
fully his farm, on which he resided for many years. As a 
citizen, and in all the social relations of life, he was kind, 
generous, hospitable ; an honest man, and one who commanded 
the universal respect of the people. He never sought public 
office. As a lawyer, he was possessed of a sound and discrimi- 
nating mind ; always carefully and thoroughly examining the 
matter presented before he came to a conclusion. His judg- 
ment and opinion were received with great respect and confi- 
dence. He never suffered himself to sacrifice his principles of 
honor and integrity for pecuniary advantages ; always maintain- 
ing, that a lawyer should govern himself professionally as he 
would as a citizen, and be guided by the rule, to do unto others 
as you wish or expect them to do unto you. His faith as a 
Christian in the unbounded love and goodness of God was firm 
and unwavering, and he awaited his departure with calmness and 
resignation. He married, in 1813, Abigail Eaton, onlv dausrh- 
ter and only surviving child of Lieut. Thomas Eaton, of 
Reading. He had five children. One daughter died in early 
infancy. Two sons and two daughters are now living. His 
wife is also living. 

1807. — Rev. Seth Freeman Swift died in Oswego, N.Y., 
12 October, 1858, aged 71. He was son of Joseph and Anna 
(Freeman) Swift, and was born in Sandwich, Mass., 25 
April, 1787. He was fitted for college at Sandwich Academy. 
After leaving college, he went through a course of theological 
studies under the instruction of Rev. John Simpkins, of Brew- 
ster, Mass. (H.C. 1786). In the spring of 1809, he went to 



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Nantucket, where, for a short lime, he taught :i school of a high 
order. The Unitarians of that island, having in view the pro- 
motion of their liberal religious principles, erected the present 
South Congregational Church, and invited Mr. Swift to take the 

pastoral charge of the new society. The house was dedicated 

in November, 1809; and Mr. Swift, having accepted the call, 

was ordained 25 April, 1810. Here he labored with great 
fidelity for more than twenty-three years. Many of his parish- 
ioners passed away before him; but many still survive who 
remember him as one whose ministrations were always accepta- 
ble, because always appropriate to the various circumstances of 
human life. The young of his society would often, at his invi- 
tation, assemble at his house, where he would entertain them, 
and make them feel at home : always cheerful ; welcoming them 
with a genial smile ; taking a deep interest in their well-doing ; 
sharing their joys and sorrows ; offering counsel, that, if fol- 
lowed, he was certain would result in the formation of high and 
noble characters, as many to whom it was addressed are left to 
testify. He always said the right word ; and it came from a 
warm, sympathetic heart. No one tied the nuptial knot with 
more grace than he. His beaming countenance brightened the 
joy of the occasion. In sadder hours, his apt words brought 
consolation to the mourner; and, in the ordinary course of life, 
he was a genial friend. In the autumn of 1833, he resigned 
his pastoral charge ; and, the following winter, he was a rep- 
resentative from Nantucket, in the legislature. In the spring 
of 1834, he removed to Oswego, N.Y., and was principal of an 
academy at that place for two years. For the last eight years 
of his life he was incapacitated from any employment, in conse- 
quence of having become blind. After his removal from Nan- 
tucket, he ever retained a lively interest for the place. A few 
months before his death, he received a letter from a friend there, 
reverting to the past, calling up early memories, and speaking 
of his friends ; and, when he found he was not forgotten, he wept 
like a child, showing how deeply his affections were rooted in 
his early home. 

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1858-59.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 237 

Abel and Lydia (Briggs) Rawson, of New York. He had four 
children, — Caroline, who married Philo Stevens, of Oswego, 
N.Y. ; Edward, Joseph, and Charles. His daughter and two 
sons survived him ; as did also his widow. His last sickness was 
of short duration, but of great suffering, which he bore without 
a murmur. His disease was cancerous tumor in the bowels. 
At the time of his death he resided with his daughter, whose 
unceasing devotions to him were indicative of the purest affec- 
tion. His son Edward too, who is well settled in Savannah, 
Ga., was permitted to be with him to administer to his comfort 
even in his last moments. 

1808. — Hon. Nathaniel Wright died in Lowell, Mass., 
5 November, 1858, aged 73. He was the oldest son of Hon. 
Thomas and Eunice (Osgood) Wright, and was born in Ster- 
ling, Mass., 13 February, 1785. He was fitted for college by 
Rev. Reuben Holcomb, of Sterling (Y.C. 1774). He held a 
very respectable rank in his class, and graduated with distinc- 
tion. He pursued the study of the law in the office of Hon. 
Asahel Stearns, of Chelmsford, Mass. (H.C. 1797) ; was 
admitted to the bar in 1814, and opened an office in Dracut, 
1 Mass. In 1 8 1 (> , Mr. Stearns was elected University Professor 
of Law in Harvard College, and removed to Cambridge the fol- 
lowing year. Mr. Wright succeeded to Mr. Stearns's office, and 
to much of his professional business ; and subsequently pur- 
chased his (Mr. Stearns's) residence, which he occupied during 
the remainder of his life. He attained to a high rank in his pro- 
fession as an able and well-read lawyer. For forensic display 
he had little taste, and made no pretension ; but when an emer- 
gency required a sound, reliable, and disinterested opinion, he 
was the dependence of his community for many years. Singu- 
larly simple and almost blunt in his manners, and sparing of 
words, there was an honesty and independence about him which 
won confidence and secured respect. On the organization of 
the town of Lowell, Mr. Wright's judgment, counsel, and legal 
knowledge were under great and constant requisition. He per- 
formed an important part in the preliminary purchase of land 
by the founders of the town ; and, in setting it off' from Chelms- 



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ford, he was an efficient agent. When Lowell was incorpo- 
rated as a town, in 182G, he was elected its first representative 
in the legislature, and was re-elected the two following years. 
He was also chosen chairman of the first board of selectmen. 
In 1834, he was elected to the state senate from Middlesex dis- 
trict. In 1836, Lowell was incorporated as a city; and Mr. 
Wright Avas elected its mayor in 1841 and 1842. He was 
chosen the first year as an independent candidate, and the sec- 
ond as the regular whig nominee. On the organization of the 
Lowell Bank, in 1828, he was elected, on the second of June 
in that year, its president ; an office which he held uninterrupt- 
edly for more than thirty years, resigning it only on the 2 2d of 
October, 1858, just two weeks before his death : his failing 
health and strength admonishing him that his work on earth was 
done ; a fact to which he resigned himself with calmness and 
cheerfulness. In all the positions which he filled, he gave entire 
satisfaction to those whose interests were intrusted to his care. 
He married, 5 March, 1820, Laura Hoar. They had five chil- 
dren, four sons and one daughter; viz., Nathaniel, Thomas, 
William Henry Prentice, Emery, and Laura Grace. Two of 
his sons, Nathaniel and Thomas, graduated at Harvard College, 
in 1838 and 1842 respectively. Nathaniel was a lawyer in 
Lowell, and died 18 September, 1847, aged 27. The others 
survived him. Thomas is a lawyer in Lawrence, Mass. Mr. 
Wright's wife died 21 January, 1857, aged 62. 

1810. — Kev. Lemuel Capen died in South Boston, 28 
August, 1858, aged 69. He was son of John and Patience 
(Davis) Capen, and was born in Dorchester, Mass., 25 Novem- 
ber, 1789. His father was a substantial farmer: and, early 
discovering in this son a taste for study, he determined to 
give him a liberal education ; for which purpose he placed him 
under the charge of Rev. Peter Whitney, of Quincy (H.C. 
1801), where he pursued his preparatory studies. At college 
he was exemplary in his conduct, was a diligent student, and 
graduated with a respectable rank. On completing his colle- 
giate course, he determined to study for the ministry, and re- 
mained at Cambridge as a resident-graduate, going through his 



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course of theological study under the instruction of Prof. Henry 
Ware, D.D. (H.C. 1785), and Andrews Norton (H.C. 1804). 
He was ordained pastor of the church in Sterling, Mass., 22 
March, 1815. He early espoused the side of Liberal Christian- 
ity, and was one of the first to preach these sentiments in the 
county of Worcester. In 1813, he wrote a pamphlet, which 
was published anonymously, entitled ff Memorial of the Pro- 
prietors of the New South Meeting-house in Dorchester to the 
Ministers of the Boston Association ; " a document which even 
the " Panoplist " acknowledged to be " written with more than 
ordinary care and ability." His pastoral relation with the 
church in Sterling was not of long duration. He resigned his 
charge, 21 June, 1819, not on account of any disaffection, but 
because his salary was inadequate to his frugal wants, and it 
could not be increased without endangering the harmony of the 
society. His farewell sermon, which has been twice printed, 
was full of the kindest interest in the people who were to be no 
longer under his professional charge. He then returned to his 
native place, Dorchester; and, from 1819 to 1822, he taught 
in the Stoughton School in that town. At the close of 1822, 
he resumed his ministei'ial duties, at the same time taking the 
part of instructor in the Hawes School in South Boston. He 
was installed pastor of the Hawes-Place Church, 31 October, 
1827. During the interval from 1822 to 1827, he received no 
pecuniary compensation for his clerical services. He depended 
upon his salary as a teacher, which was only about five hundred 
dollars a year, for the support of himself and his family. All this 
while, and for several years afterwards, the public worship was 
held in one of the humblest of meeting-houses. The building 
was ten feet high, about a hundred feet long, and less than 
thirty in breadth. Under that lowly roof, he labored, in the 
preaching of the Word, faithfully, earnestly, and with good 
acceptance, for about twelve years. In 1832, he was called to 
part with his venerable friend, Mr. John Hawes, the founder of 
the religious society to which he ministered ; and set forth, on the 
Sunday after his funeral, a discriminating account of his char- 
acter and benefactions. This discourse was published, with an 



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"Appendix containing Historical Notices of the Hawes-Place 

Church and Society." That sturdy and trusty Christian man, 
who has left his name so favorably impressed upon the religious 
and educational institutions of South Boston, invariably treated 
Mr. Capen with the utmost confidence and regard, and consulted 
him often to the day of his death. Soon after his departure, 
and by the help of the funds which he bequeathed, a new 
meeting-house was built ; but with the enlargement of the 
borders of the sanctuary, and the beautifying of its walls; and 
the increased comeliness of its appointments, there seems to 
have been no corresponding increase of the holy dispositions for 
which sanctuaries are built. It is often the case, that moneyed 
endowments lead to neither prosperty nor peace ; and, in the 
present instance, they encouraged jealousies, expectations more 
ambitious than pure or considerate, and growing troubles. Mr. 
Capen again resigned his pastorate, with less of his own will 
in the surrender than before, and not with the same conscious- 
ness of perfect favor, though he carried a better consciousness 
in the testimony of his own breast. He delivered his farewell 
sermon, 23 June, 1839. It was written in his usual direct, 
dispassionate, and faithful manner. He never afterwards en- 
tered the settled ministry, though his heart was always in that 
work ; and he continued, to the end of his days, preaching 
occasionally wdiere his services were requested. During his 
whole residence at South Boston, the scantiness of his income 
compelled him to till his grounds with his own hands ; and this 
he did stoutly and cheerfully. His vigorous health, which never 
gave way, nor showed sign of giving way, till it broke up wholly 
and at every point at last, enabled him to perform this kind of 
toil ; and, moreover, he had a taste for it, and skill in it. He 
knew how to do the work of a farmer well, and to write about 
its experiences. His opinions on agricultural topics, in his con- 
tributions to the "New-England Farmer," are said to have 
been valued by the readers of that journal. In the midst of 
his pecuniary straits, no one ever knew him to be penurious 
or exacting or cringing or shuffling or mean. Some of the 
pleasantest associations of his whole existence he declared to be 



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connected with school-keeping ; and there were raany to appre- 
ciate the influence of his conscientious instructions. He was 
often called to serve on school-committees, where he gave the 
best of his diligence. He was elected a representative to the 
state legislative in 183(5, and again in 1847. When he was 
nearly sixty years of age, the old zeal for both his vocations, 
teaching and preaching, burned afresh in him. At an invita- 
tion from Baltimore to succeed Rev. Charles H. A. Dall (H.C. 
1837) as a missionary to the poor, he at once left his home, — 
to no one dearer, — and assumed that laborious service in that 
southern city. A printed copy of his first quarterly report, 
dated 31 January, 1846, is marked with the deepest feeling of 
engagedness in his trying office. The singleness of his mind, 
and the tenderness of his heart, were likely to distinguish them- 
selves in such a mingled work of instruction and charity ; and 
the trustees of the Baltimore Ministry at Large bear ample tes- 
timony, in the same document, to the efficiency with which his 
hard duties were discharged. Besides his publications which 
have been mentioned, there is in the "Liberal Preacher" a 
sermon of his on " The Religious Education of Children," printed 
in June, 1831 ; and there is an elaborate article in the "Chris- 
tian Examiner" for September, 1855, on "Dr. Codman and the 
Second Church in Dorchester." He was also the writer of 
several biographical notices of ministers and of old residents 
in South Boston, which have been read with interest, and even 
republished. 

He married, 11 October, 1815, Mary Ann Hunting, daugh- 
ter of Asa and Abigail (Blaney) Hunting, of Roxbury. They 
had nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom five 
sons and one daughter with their mother survived him. His 
children were Francis Lemuel, born in Sterling, 17 March, 
1817 ; John, born 8 September, 1818 ; Mary Ann, born in 
Dorchester, 19 February, 1820, — died 7 November, 1844; 
Edward, born 20 October, 1821 ; Charles James, born in South 
Boston, 5 April, 1823 ; Sarah Hawes, born 22 October, 1824, 
— died 5 December, 1825 ; Barnard, born 31 October, 1820 ; 
Jane, born 5 November, 1828 ; Eliphalet Porter, born 14 Novem- 

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ber, 1831, — died 19 November, 1835. Four of his sons hare 
graduated at Harvard ( !ollege; namely, Francis Lemuel in 1839, 
John in 1840, Edward in 1842, and Charles James in 1844. 

1811. — Hon. Thomas Greaves Cart, of Boston, died at 
his summer residence in Nahant, Mass., 3 July, 1859, aged 67. 
He was son of Samuel and Sarah (Gray) Gary, and was born 
in Chelsea, Mass., 7 September, 1791. After finishing his col- 
lege course, he studied law in the office of Hon. Peter Oxen- 
bridge Thacher (II. C. 1796), of Boston. He was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1814, and began the practice of his profession 
in Boston. He married, 30 May, 1820, Mary Ann C. Perkins, 
daughter of Hon. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, of Boston. They 
had seven children, two sons and five daughters, all of whom, 
with their mother, survived him. A short time before his mar- 
riage, he removed to Brattleborough, Vt., where he continued 
the practice of his profession until 1821, when he removed to 
New York, and engaged in the Canton trade as the senior part- 
ner in the house of T. G. and W. F. Gary. After eight or 
nine years, he returned to Boston, and joined the house of J. 
and T. II. Perkins and Co. After the dissolution of this firm, 
Mr. Gary became the treasurer of the Hamilton and Appleton 
manufacturing companies at Lowell, the affairs of which he 
managed, with great ability and success, to the day of his death. 
In 1838, he became a special partner in the house of Fay and 
Far wells, of Boston. This partnership continued until the dis- 
solution of the firm in 1851. He was often solicited to allow 
himself to be a candidate for political honors ; but he generally 
declined. He, however, served as a senator for the Suffolk dis- 
trict in the state legislature in 1846, 1847, 1852, and 1853. In 
his political opinions and action he was wholly free from a blind 
partisan spirit. Though conservative in his tendencies, he was 
a consistent and able advocate of real progress. He took a 
great interest in all cuiestions of education and social reform, 
and carried through the legislature several of the most important 
acts on those subjects now on the statute-book ; as, for example, 
the law relating to state scholarships. He was for many years 
a director of the Hamilton Bank, and president of the Boston 



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Athenauun. He was also a trustee of the Institution for the 
Blind ; and took an active interest in many other charitable 
establishments, giving to their affairs both pecuniary support and. 
much valuable time. He was a member of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Massachusetts Histori- 
cal Society. He frequently contributed able essays to the 
newspapers and the periodical publications. Hunt's "Mer- 
chants' Magazine," the "North-American Review," and several 
of the daily journals, were enriched by his elegant and well-con- 
sidered writings. In 1847, he delivered before the city author- 
ities of Boston the Fourth-of-July oration, which was published, 
and which showed the refined taste, high moral tone, and purity 
of style, that were peculiarly characteristic of him. He pub- 
lished, in 1844, "A Letter to a Lady in France on National and 
State Repudiation ; " in 1845, "A Letter on Profits on Manu- 
factures in Lowell," and "An Address on the Fine Arts, deliv- 
ered before the Mercantile-Library Association." • In the same 
year he delivered a lecture on banking, in which the subject was 
explained with great perspicuity and beauty. In 1856, besides a 
"Lecture on the Gold of California, and its Effects on Prices," he 
published the most elaborate of his works, entitled "A Memoir 
of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, containing Extracts from his 
Diaries and Letters," in 8vo ; a volume of great biographical 
interest, presenting a masterly delineation of the life and charac- 
ter of that great merchant. In February, 1857, he embarked 
with his family for Europe ; and having travelled through Eng- 
land, France, Italy, and Switzerland, returned, in October of the 
same year, to resume his various occupations at home. His 
health, which had not been vigorous for some years, began to 
give way a few months before his death. He gradually grew 
feebler; and, during the last week or two of his life, his de- 
cline was rapid, and he breathed his last as gently as a child 
falls asleep. Mr. Cary was a gentleman in the truest and best 
sense of the word. His manners were at once unaffected, and 
marked by a chivalrous high breeding, recognizing the rights 
of the lowest as well as those of the highest to the courtesies 
which sweeten the intercourse of life. In thought, word, and 



211 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1858-59. 

deed, his diiily intercourse was characterized by Christian purity. 
Into the transactions of business, public and private, as well as 
into the intercourse of society and the domestic relations, lie car- 
ried the principles of Christianity, as the rule of conversation, 
the guide of conduct, and the assurance of happiness here and 
hereafter. 

1814. — Jonathan Porter died in Medford, Mass., 11 
June, 1851), aged G7. He had been confined to his sick-room 
for more than a quarter of a century. A disease, which no skill 
could remove, embarrassed and afflicted him for a time, while 
struggling to continue his active labors ; and at length com- 
pelled him, in the midst of his days, n abandon his pursuits, 
and shut himself up as an invalid for the rest of his life. His 
expectations were thus disappointed, his plans- broken up, and 
his work left unfinished. The story of his life, though brief, 
is not without interest. He was son of Jonathan and Phebe 
(Abbot) Porter, and was born in Medford, 13 November, 
1791. His father was a merchant in Medford: his mother 
was a native of Andover, Mass. He married, 22 July, 182.'), 
Catharine Gray, daughter of Samuel Gray, of Medford. They 
had three children, one son and two daughters. One daughter 
died in his lifetime. His wife and the other two children sur- 
vived him. Until he reached the age of about sixteen or seven- 
teen, he was employed, as far as he had any employment, as a 
clerk in his father's store. It was found that he had no taste 
for mercantile pursuits ; but from an early age he had discovered 
a fondness for books and study, and desired to obtain an educa- 
tion. When about seventeen years old, having up to that time 
enjoyed only the ordinary advantages of common schools, he 
began to prepare for college under the instruction of Dr. John 
Hosmer, who was the principal of a private school or academy 
in Medford. He prosecuted his studies at this school for about 
a year ; and then entered Harvard College at Commence- 
ment in 1810. His class was large for that time ; and is now 
distinguished by the eminent abilities, high position, and great 
fame, of some whose names stand upon its catalogue. That it 
possessed a large range and amount of talent, is evident from 



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the number of its members who have obtained an honorable 
rank in their several callings and pursuits. In this class, and 
with these associates, Mr. Porter, as a scholar, stood among 
the first, and graduated with the highest honors. He was ear- 
nest and assiduous in the prosecution of his studies, faithful in 
the performance of all his duties, and exemplary in all his 
habits. His generous and manly bearing in the severe con- 
tests of the literary arena won for him the esteem and friendship 
of his classmates, which continued to the close of his life, and 
cheered the many lung years of his feebleness and confinement. 
He cherished good-will toward all ; rejoiced at their success, 
and bore with meekness his own. When he reached the end of 
his college term, and looked forward to the future, the prospect 
was bright and hopeful. His college honors seemed an earnest 
of other and higher, to be won on a wider field. He chose the 
law for a profession ; and pursued his preparatory studies a part 
of the time in the office of the Hon. Luther Lawrence (H.C. 
1801), of Groton, and a part in the office of the Hon. Asahel 
Stearns (H.C. 1797), of Chelmsford. They were both able 
and eminent lawyers, and stood high in public estimation. 
They were also gentlemen of high moral character, upright in 
all their dealings, and honorable in all their practice. Mr. 
Porter was a worthy pupil of such teachers, and in these 
schools acquired all which could be expected to be acquired in 
the time, — an accurate knowledge of the general principles of 
law, and sound professional ethics. He was admitted to the 
bar in the county of Middlesex in the fal^ of 1817, and opened 
an office, at first in Medtord, and about a year afterwards in 
Boston. His intellectual endowments were well suited to the 
study of the law as a science. His mind was acute, discrimi- 
nating, and logical ; and his memory was retentive and ready. 
A patient, persevering, and critical investigation was to him an 
agreeable exercise ; and he was unwilling to relinquish a sub- 
ject, once taken in hand, until it was mastered and exhausted. 
He took pleasure in working out, with steady, patient thought, 
and thorough, laborious research, perplexed and difficult ques- 
tions of law. He read much ; and his legal learning was 



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accurate and entensive. There can be no doubt that he was 
capable of reaching a high rank as a lawyer. I>ut tlic practice 
of the law, as a business, was nut so well suited to his tastes 

and habits. He was a scholar, fond of books and study and 

retirement, but had no fondness for die turmoil and strife, the 
"pert dispute" and "babbling hall," of professional practice. 

Still lie had considerable business, which was always well and 
faithfully managed. He argued some questions of law before 
the Supreme Court with decided ability. lie was patient, labo- 
rious, and conscientiously scrupulous and exact in the perform- 
ance of all his duties. In his professional as in his private life, 
he was just and upright, and incapable of any unworthy arti- 
fice or trick. His principles and practice were pure, elevated, 
and honorable. He did not, upon coining to the bar, as is too 
often the case with men of the law, relinquish all attention 
to liberal studies. The classics still continued to be his com- 
panions. So far as he could command the time, he continued 
his application to general literature, and was a diligent student 
of metaphysics, mathematics, and the exact sciences. In 1822, 
he delivered the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa at Cam- 
bridge. At that time, he was in feeble health. His infirmitv 
was such, that he thought, from time to time, that he should be 
obliged to relinquish the task he had undertaken ; but he strug- 
gled on to the fulfilment of his engagement. Of the literary 
merit of his performance we have not been informed, and have 
no knowledge ; but are apprised of the fact, that the oration was 
prepared and delivered, under much bodily weakness and suffer- 
ing. In 1830, the complaint which clung to him ever after- 
wards made its presence known. In the summer of that year, 
he made a voyage to Europe, in the hope of improving his 
health. In the spring of 1831, he returned with his health 
apparently somewhat improved. But, soon after resuming his 
business, the disease gained strength, and became more alarm- 
ing. Now succeeded a period of much anxiety and suffering. 
He still hoped that recovery to health was possible, and was 
earnest and persevering in the use of means to that end. At 
times he would seem to be improved, and be encouraged ; he 



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would then become worse, and fall into despondency. So he 
continued on, hoping and desponding, until at length he was 
compelled to settle down in the conviction, that there was no 
prospect of his restoration to health, and that his professional 
and all other active pursuits must be finally and for ever relin- 
quished. Then began a distinct and peculiar period of his life. 
His complaint was supposed to be a spinal affection, the precise 
character and extent of which was never fully ascertained. 
The disease gradually increased, until it deprived him of the 
power of moving about ; and he was obliged to remain con- 
stantly in a lying or sitting posture. In this condition he 
remained to the end of life. Until within a year or two of 
his decease, he was, from time to time, subject to much pain 
and suffering. All the alleviation which the most affectionate 
and untiring attention and efforts of his family could afford he 
had. When all hope of recovery or amendment was extin- 
guished, he became perfectly resigned to his condition. There 
was never the slightest murmuring or discontent or impatience 
or dejection. He was calm and cheerful, and grateful for the 
many mercies he enjoyed. His chamber was not shrouded in 
gloom, but lighted up with the mild and cheering rays of con- 
tentment and peace. He felt that the best place, the happiest 
place, the most honorable place, for him, was his own place, 
the place which Providence had assigned him. In that place 
he was willing and happy to remain until removed to another 
state of existence. Though his body was feeble, his mind 
retained its activity and vigor. Though confined within the 
narrow limits of his own room, his life was not an idle one, or 
without significance. For some years, he was constantly occu- 
pied in the education of his children ; an employment which he 
greatly enjoyed, and for which he was admirably qualified. 
The daughters were wholly and thoroughly educated by him. 
He was himself, at all times, a diligent student, and never 
unoccupied. He was particularly fond of Greek literature, and 
took much interest in reading the Greek poets and historians. 
He was also a good English scholar ; read extensively moral 
and religious works, and kept along with the current literature 



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of the day. lie enjoyed the visits of his friends, and took an 
interest in whatever interested them <>r the public. lie saw 
with pleasure, and without repining, his classmates successful 
in the world, and winning the prizes of life. For himself, he 
was entirely content with his own little spot, as the theatre of 
his action. Thus year after year wore away, and the time 
of his departure drew on. There was no Buffering, no new 
complaint, no apparent increase of the old one. His strength 
gradually failed ; he was confined to his bed ; he lost the power 
of speech, though evidently conscious of what was passing 
around him ; his pulse stopped, but he still breathed : at length 
his lungs ceased to heave, and he ceased to live. 

Mr. Porter gave ample evidence of a high order of intellectual 
endowments* He had a calm, well-balanced, active, and vigor- 
ous mind, an ardent desire of knowledge, and firm and unwaver- 
ing moral and religious principles. Thus qualified, he might 
well be expected to achieve much in any field of intellectual 
labor. But he was suddenly stopped in his course, and his 
work remains incomplete. His manners were simple, unassum- 
ing, and courteous ; and his feelings were liberal, social, and 
obli»in<;. He was a steadfast and true-hearted friend. He 
loved his friends, and secured their enduring affection. His 
friendships ended only with his life. His large attainments as a 
scholar, and his pure principles, made his conversation always 
interesting and improving. He had no idle or frivolous talk, no 
gossip, no slander, no censoriousness. He was kind and chari- 
table from principle and feeling, and gave liberally to charitable 
and other objects which he thought deserving. The respect in 
which he was held by all who knew him bore evidence to his 
sterling worth. Of Mr. Porter in the privacy of his domestic 
life this is not the fitting occasion particularly to speak. But it 
was in his own home where the sympathies, affections, and 
amenities of his daily life best exhibited the excellence of his 
true character. " A man's religion is the chief fact in regard to 
him." Mr. Porter was a religious man. He had deep religious 
feelings and principles. He was connected with the church 
under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Andrew Bigelow (H.C. 
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1814) in Medford, and afterwards united with the Episcopal 
Church by the rite of confirmation. He reverenced Christian- 
ity, and had a firm belief in the Christian Scriptures as a divine 
revelation. He was a constant, earnest, humble student of the 
Bible. His patience, resignation, and cheerfulness, during the 
long period of his confinement and suffering, were the triumph 
of his Christian faith. In the remembrance of what he was, 
and how he lived, his family have found consolation in their be- 
reavement. The many years during which he was shut out 
from the world were not lost. This life is not the end of 
our being. The fruit of cultivated intellect, of chastened, puri- 
fied, elevated, Christian affections, will be gathered, either in this 
life or a life hereafter. 

1814. — William Hickling Prescott died in Boston, 
28 January, 1859, aged 62. He was son of Hon. William 
(H.C. 1783) and Catharine Greene (Hickling) Prescott, and 
was born in Salem, Mass., 4 May, 1796. His father was born 
in Pepperell, Mass., 19 August, 1762 ; Avas an eminent lawyer 
and judge ; and was distinguished for his social qualities, which 
won for him troops of friends. He was admitted to the bar in 
1787, and began the practice of his profession in Beverly. He 
soon afterwards removed to Salem, where he practised extensively 
and successfully for nineteen years, when he removed to Boston, 
his son being at that time twelve years of age ; and there he 
continued his professional business until 1828, when his health 
obliged him to relinquish it. He twice had the offer of a seat 
on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court, but in both in- 
stances declined it. He was afterwards induced to accept the 
office of judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Boston ; but 
having filled it about a year, and finding its duties irksome, he 
resigned it. He died 8 December, 1844, aged 82. Mr. Pres- 
cott's mother was one of the noblest women that ever lived. 
She was the daughter of Thomas Hickling, Esq. , who for nearly 
half a century was the American consul at the Island of St. 
Michael's. His grandfather, Col. William Prescott, as is well 
known, commanded the American forces at the battle of Bunker 
Hill. He died 13 October, 1795, at the age of 69. 

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Sood after the removal of the family to Boston, Mr. Prescott 
was placed under the charge of the Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, 

D.D., of Trinity Church, where he pursued his preparatory 
Studies, and entered the sophomore class in 1811. He imme- 
diately gained a high rank of scholarship, and graduated with 
distinction. He had intended to devote himself to the profes- 
sion of law; but in his junior year he lost the sight of one 
of his eyes, from an accidental blow ; and the other, sym- 
pathizing: with it, soon became enfeebled : his general health 
failed, and he was obliged for a time to relinquish all studies. 
Happily his father's circumstances were such that he was not 
necessitated to toil for his bread. He early determined to de- 
vote himself to a life of literature. Soon after leaving college, 
being advised to travel, he went to Europe, where he passed 
two years in an extended journey through England, France, 
and Italy, and vainly sought aid from the most eminent foreign 
oculists. He returned home restored in health, but with his 
sight permanently impaired. He was never able to use his own 
eyes for more than a short time in the day ; but was constantly 
obliged to use the eyes of others for his studies and researches, 
as well as for recording the results of them. His quiet perse- 
verance and continuous industry enabled him to triumph over 
this difficulty, and to achieve an amount of literary labor which 
is not only most honorable to his intellectual powers, but conveys 
a noble moral lesson to all who may be afflicted in a similar 
manner. His earliest literary efforts were contributions to the 
"North- American Review." These show the tendencies of his 
mind and his favorite studies. In October, 1824, he contrib- 
uted a paper on "Italian Narrative Poetry," which called out 
some strictures from an Italian teacher in New York ; to which a 
reply was made in the "North-American" for July, 1825. A 
paper on "Scottish Song " appeared in July, 1*2(5 ; one on 
"Molicre" in October, 1828; one on Irving's "Conquest of 
Granada" in October, 1829. The titles and dates of his other 
contributions are as follows: "Instruction of the Blind," July, 
1830; "Poetry and Romance of the Italians," July, 1831; 
"Cervantes," July, 1837; "Sir Walter Scott," April, 1838.; 



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Chateaubriand's "English Literature," October, 1839 ; Bancroft's 
"United States," January, 1S41 ; Madame Calderon's "Life in 
Mexico," January, 1843 ; Ticknor's "History of Spanish Liter- 
ature,"" January, 1850. These essays, except the last, were 
printed in one volume, in London and Boston, in 1845 ; and 
several editions have since been called for. The memoir of 
Charles Brockden Brown, the novelist, published in Sparks's 
" American Biography " in 1834, was written by Mr. Prescott. 
But he had long cherished a hope of being able to write a his- 
tory; and, as he prosecuted his researches into Spanish literature 
and annals, his design assumed form. The friendly offices of the 
late Hon. Alexander H. Everett, then United-States minister at 
Madrid, were of great service in enabling him to obtain a rich 
and extensive body of materials for his work. These valuable 
books, manuscripts, and copies of official documents, reached 
him at a time when most men, under like circumstances, would 
have abandoned all hope of executing the task he undertook. 
An extract from the preface of his "History of Peru," dated 
April, 1847, will best explain what these were, and most authen- 
tically describe that peculiarity of his literary history which is 
so remarkable in itself, and so valuable and encouraging to 
others who may suffer under any physical infirmity. He 
says, — 

" While at the university, I received an injury in one of my 
eyes, which deprived me of the sight of it. The other, soon after, 
was attacked by inflammation so severely, that for some time I 
lost the sight of that also; and, though it was subsequently 
restored, the organ was so much disordered as to remain perma- 
nently debilitated ; while, twice in my life since, I have been 
deprived of the use of it, for all purposes of reading or writing, for 
several years together. It was during one of these periods that I 
received from Madrid the materials for my " History of Ferdinand 
and Isabella ;" and in my disabled conditon, with my transatlan- 
tic treasures lying around me, I was like one pining with hunger 
in the midst of abundance. In this state I resolved to make the 
ear, if possible, do the work of the eye. I procured the services 
of a secretary, who read to me the various authorities ; and, in 



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time, I became bo familiar \\ ith the sounds of the different foreign 
languages (to some of which, indeed, I had been previously ac- 
cu8tomed by a residence abroad) , that I could comprehend his 
reading without much difficulty. As the reader proceeded, I dic- 
tated copious notes; and, when these had .-welled to a consider- 
able amount, they were read to me repeatedly, till I had mastered 
their contents sufficiently for the purpose of composition." 

After some deliberation and hesitation, he selected the reign 
of Ferdinand and Isabella as the subject of an extended historical 
work ; and to this the assiduous labor of many years was cheer- 
fully and patiently given. The work was published in 1838, in 
three volumes, and was received with the utmost enthusiasm 
both in Europe and America. Scholars and philosophers ad- 
mired its depth of research, while general readers were charmed 
by the limpid ease and natural grace of its style, his brilliant 
descriptions and animated pictures. It was soon translated into 
French, Spanish, and German. Its author was immediately 
elected a member of the Royal Academy of Madrid. The popu- 
larity which it gained upon its first publication it has since 
steadily maintained. The seventh revised edition of the work 
appeared in 1854 ; and it is one of the established classics in the 
language. Mr. Prescott's literary industry was not checked by 
the success of his first work. He did not, for a moment, repose 
under his laurels. He immediately devoted himself to the inves- 
tigation of another brilliant period in the history of Spain, the 
fruits of which appeared in 1843, in a work in three volumes, 
entitled the " History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Prelimi- 
nary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of 
the Conqueror Hernando Cortez." This work was received 
with no less favor than that which had greeted the " History of 
Ferdinand and Isabella." The literary world recognized in it 
the same careful research, the same accuracy of statement, the 
same persuasive sweetness and magic beauty of style. In 1847, 
was published, in two volumes, the "History of the Conquest of 
Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas ; " 
a work of kindred and commensurate excellence to that of the 
"History of the Conquest of Mexico." 



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Mr. Prescott now devoted himself wifrh unabated ardor to 
the preparation of a work of wider range and a broader scope, — 
a work which he was not permitted to finish , — the " History of 
the Reign of Philip the Second." This was a theme requiring 
a larger and more comprehensive treatment than his previous 
works. He had now become one of the great literary names of 
the age, and found everywhere persons who were ready to give 
him assistance. Everywhere, both public and private collections 
and private archives were thrown open to him. It was while 
preparing for this work that he indulged himself with a brief 
excursion to England, where he was received with the utmost 
enthusiasm by persons of the highest distinction in literature and 
social life, and where the favorable impression created by his 
works was confirmed by his prepossessing appearance and delight- 
ful manners. He took ample time for the task which he destined 
to be the crowning work of his life. In the latter part of 1855 
appeared the first two volumes jof this work, under the title of 
the " History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain." 
The highest expectations of the public were gratified by it. 

In 1856, he published an edition of Robertson's "History of 
the Reign of Charles the Fifth," with notes and a valuable sup- 
plement, containing an account of the emperor's life after his 
abdication. 

But a few weeks before his death, the third volume of his 
"History of Philip the Second" appeared ; and the public journals 
and reviews on both sides of the Atlantic were speaking its 
praises, as a work worthy the fame of its distinguished author, 
when the news of his decease was received. 

No native author has shed more lustre on American litera- 
ture than Mr. Prescott. The highest acknowledgments of 
literary distinction were liberally showered upon him. The 
University of Oxford, in 1850, conferred upon him the degree 
of doctor of laws. He received the same degree from Co- 
lumbia College, N.Y., in 1840; from South Carolina College 
in 1841 ; and from Harvard College in 1843. He was elected 
a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Northern Anti- 
quaries, Copenhagen, in July, 1837 ; of the Royal Academy 



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of History, Madrid, May, 1839; of the Royal Academy of 
Sciences, Naples, September, 1839; of the Herculanean Acad- 
emy, Naples, May, 1841 ; of the Institute of France, Paris, 
under the division of moral and political science, and in the 
section of general history succeeding Navarete, the Spanish 
historian, without the previous knowledge or solicitation of him- 
self or friends, being the highest of all distinctions of its 
class, — an honor said never before to have been conferred on 
any native of New England, except Dr. Franklin, — 1 Feb- 
ruary, 1845 ; of the Prussian Imperial Academy of Berlin, 
February, 1845. He was an honorary-member of the Royal 
Society of Literature, London ; of the Royal Irish Academy ; 
of the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec ; of the Mexi- 
can Society of Geography and Statistics : and was elected, in 
1850, an honorary-fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Lon- 
don. He was also a member of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and 
the Massachusetts Historical Society. In private life, he was 
a most entertaining and genial companion. He was as rich in 
the love of his friends as in the admiration of the literary 
world. His character was thus beautifully and eloquently 
described, a few days after his death, by his former pastor : 
" The man was more than his books. His character was loftier 
than all his reputation. So simple-minded, and so great- 
minded ; so keen in his perceptions, but so kind in his judg- 
ments ; so resolute, but so unpretending ; so considerate of 
every one, and so tasking of himself; so full of the truest and 
warmest affections ; so merry in his temper, without overleaping 
a single due bound ; such spirit, but such equanimity ; so much 
thoughtfulness, without the least cast of sickliness ; doing good 
as by the instinct of spontaneous activity, and doing labor with- 
out a wrinkle or a strain ; unswerving in his integrity, and 
with the nicest sense of honor ; whom no disadvantage could 
dishearten, no prosperity corrupt, no honors and plaudits elate 
or alter one whit ; modest as if he had never done any thing; 
retaining through life all the artlessness of the highest wisdom ; 
with a liberal heart and open hand ; the ingenuousness of youth 



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flashing to the last from his frank face ; walking in sympathy 
with his fellows, and humbly before God." 

Mr. Prescott married, 4 May, 1820, Susannah, daughter of 
Thomas C. and Hannah R. Amory, of Boston. They had 
three children, two sons and a daughter, who with their mother 
survived him. 

1815. — Hon. George Eustis died in New Orleans, 22 
December, 1858, aged 62. He was the oldest son of Jacob 
and Elizabeth (Gray) Eustis ; and was born in Boston, 20 
October, 1796. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin 
School. Soon after his graduation, he went abroad in the 
capacity of private secretary to his uncle, Gov. William Eustis 
(H.C. 1772), then minister to the Hague ; the secretary of the 
legation being Hon. Alexander Hill Everett (H.C. 1806), so 
well known for his varied attainments, with whom he formed a 
friendship that was life-long. At the Hague he began his legal 
studies, and drew, from the clear fountains of the civil law of 
Holland, France, and Germany, those elementary principles and 
stores of learning, which, at a later period, he was destined to 
exhibit to such advantage in his career at the bar and on the 
bench. On his return from Europe, he went to New Orleans, 
where he completed his professional studies with Abner L. 
Duncan of that city, and where, on his admission to the bar 
about the year 1822, he established himself in the practice of 
law. He soon began to attract notice as an able jurist, a 
keen logician, and a speaker and writer of great pith and 
terseness. The bar of New Orleans then embraced some of the 
ablest juridical minds in the country. The learned, laborious, 
and eloquent Livingston ; the vigorous, ponderous, and sar- 
castic Mazureau ; the fluent, graphic, and sensible Grymes ; 
the well-read, sagacious, and vigilant Hennen ; and a host 
of other younger attorneys, — many of whom have since 
reached the highest places in the profession, — were the for- 
midable rivals among whom young Eustis was thrown to strug- 
gle and contend for the prizes of professional distinction. He 
was not unequal to the contest. Discarding the arts of the 
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to consideration as a lawyer upon Ins logical power, his thor- 
ough knowledge of the science of law, hi- fine analytical talent, 
and his (dear, perspicuous, laconic Btyle. Oratory, or elo- 
quence, he held in little esteem; and quibbling technicalities 
were his special disgust. J ne reason of the law, its equity and 
philosophy, were the objects of his constant study and search ; 
and, in the pursuit of these, he deemed it necessary to render 
himself perfectly familiar with the history of jurisprudence. 
lie was a thorough civilian, — one of the most accomplished in 
the United States. 

He was several times elected a member of the state legisla- 
ture ; was secretary-of-state of Louisiana ; and was for several 
years the leading commissioner of the Board of Currency, an 
institution which has been eminently serviceable in guarding 
and regulating the banking system. He possessed a thorough 
knowledge of the system of banking, and was the author of 
many of those reforms which have given so much stability and 
such a high character to the currency of the state of Louisiana. 
He was also attorney-general and assistant-justice of the Su- 
preme Court of the state ; which last position he resigned to 
enter on a somewhat lengthened tour in Europe. He was a 
leading member, as a conservative democrat, of the convention 
for amending the state constitution, in 1845 ; and became the 
chief-justice of the Supreme Court as it was remodelled by 
that instrument. During his term of office he performed 
much mental labor, with great success. He was indefati- 
gable, and possessed an admirable method, and great command 
of his resources. His judicial decisions were marked by a 
clearness of style and logic, and a thorough acquaintance with 
law, which made them compare favorably with the best to be 
found in the English or American reports. After the adoption, 
in 1852, of the present constitution of the state, which provides 
for popular election of the judiciary, he retired from public 
life — being utterly opposed to the election of judges by the 
people — to resume his practice at the bar; which he did under 
flattering circumstances. 

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acquaintance with English, French, and Spanish literature; and 
was esteemed by his large circle of friends as a most entertain- 
ing and instructive companion; and, if his conversation was 
occasionally dashed with sarcasm, it was often replete with 
genuine humor and racy wit. He was incorruptibly honest, a 
high-minded gentleman, a virtuous citizen, and an excellent 
man. He was naturally of a vigorous,, mental, and physical 
constitution, maintained by habits of out-door exercise. In 
1849, the honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred 
upon him by Harvard College. 

He married, in 1825, Clarissa Allain, of Louisiana, by whom 
he had six children , — four sons and two daughters ; one of 
whom, the Hon. George Eustis, jun., was for several years 
the representative in Congress from the First Congressional Dis- 
trict of Louisiana. His wife survives him. 

1816. — William John Alden Bradford died at sea, of 
Chagres fever, on the passage from Central America to New 
York, 28 November, 1858, aged 61 years. He was the oldest 
son of Hon. Alden (H.C. 1786) and Margaret (Stevenson) 
Bradford, and was born in Wiscasset, Me., 19 November, 1797. 
His father was born in Duxbury, Mass., 19 May, 1765; was 
ordained minister of Pownalborough (now Wiscasset), Me., 
14 November, 1793 ; was dismissed 21 September, 1801 ; relin- 
quished the ministry, removed to Boston, and was clerk of 
the Supreme Court. He afterwards engaged in the book-trade 
as a partner of the firm of Bradford and Read. Leaving trade 
for politics, he was secretary of state from 1812 to 1824. He 
published a history of Massachusetts from 1760 to 1820, and 
several other valuable works. He died 26 October, 1843, ao-ed 
78 years. The mother of this notice was daughter of Thomas 
and Isabel Stevenson, of Boston. He was fitted for collce 
principally at Exeter (N.H.) Academy, but completed his pre- 
paratory studies at the public Latin School in Boston. After 
leaving college, he studied law under the instruction of Hon. 
James Savage, of Boston, (H.C. 1803), and practised his pro- 
fession in Essex and New Bedford. He subsequently went to 
Iowa, and practised in Dubuque some ten or twelve years, where 

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be was for some time district-attorney . He afterwards returned 
to Massachusetts : was a clerk in the United-States Branch Bank 
in Boston; but, finding that the confinement was injurious to his 
health, he resigned his situation, resumed the practice of the Law, 

and acted as a justice in Charlestown, Mass., two or three years. 
He then went to Central America, intending, if he liked the 
country, to settle there : but, it not meeting his expectations, he 
concluded to return to the United States ; and on the voyage 
home he was seized with the fever which proved fatal, and he 
was buried at sea. He was never married. 

1816". — Augustus Thorndike died in Boston, 25 \m em- 
ber, 1858, aged 61. He was son of Hon. Israel and Anna 
(Dodge) Thorndike, and was born in Beverly, Mass., 8 July, 
1797. His father Avas a man of great ability and energy. It 
has been justly remarked, that "few individuals, endowed with 
such mental powers, appear in a generation ; and when their 
influence is united, as was his, with high moral powers, and 
exerted during a long life on the side of virtue, and in promot- 
ing the best interests of society, it is enduring, and serves to give 
a character to the age in which they live." * 

At an early age, Augustus manifested a quickness of appre- 
hension, and much aptitude for learning ; and Col. Thorndike 
was very desirous that his son should receive the best possible 
education. With this object in view, he sent him, when about 
eleven years of age, to Edinburgh, and placed him under the care 
of the Rev. David Irving, D.D., a very distinguished classical 
scholar, in whose family he resided during all the time he re- 
mained in Scotland. After some preparation, under the instruc- 
tion of Dr. Irving, Augustus entered that well-known seminary 
called the High School of Edinburgh. There he pursued his 
studies with diligence, and made very satisfactory proficiency, 
until about August, 18*13, when his father directed him to re- 
turn home, for the purpose of having him enter college at Cam- 
bridge. As war existed at that time between England and the 
United States, some delay occurred before a suitable ship could 
be obtained in which he might cross the Atlantic. On the 28th 

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of September, he left Liverpool in what was denominated a car- 
tel, together with forty-one other Americans ; and arrived at 
Boston on the 4th of November. 

It may be proper here to state that Augustus conducted him- 
self well while he lived in Edinburgh, and was held in good 
estimation by his instructors and acquaintances. The late Earl 
of Buchan, the friend of Washington, took much interest in him, 
familiarly calling him little Thorndike ; and he, as well as the 
celebrated Francis Jeffrey, the late Lord- Advocate of Scotland, 
showed Augustus much attention and kindness. At the Hifjh 
School, at that time, there were several pupils who were sons 
of noblemen ; and, when Augustus entered the school, these 
pupils manifested a disposition to be rude to this young Ameri- 
can. One of the boys, who was son of an illustrious duke, often 
took the liberty to run upon and hector young Thorndike ; and 
he seemed to be encouraged in this practice by some of his com- 
rades. This was borne with a good degree of patience for a 
time ; but at length it became intolerable ; and Augustus, having 
consulted with his old friend, the Earl of Buchan, took a favor- 
able opportunity, when he was grossly assailed by the young 
duke, as he was commonly called, to redress his grievances. 
Whereupon these two champions had a furious set-to and fight. 
A ring was formed, and a large majority of the boys insisted 
upon fair play. Augustus, who was very athletic, and was 
expert in boxing, gave the young duke such a severe drub- 
bing, that he cried for quarter, and at length surrendered at dis- 
cretion. The young American was cheered, and proclaimed the 
victor. Thenceforth he was in the ascendant, and was treated 
with great deference and civility by all the boys in the school. 

On the return of Augustus, in November, 1813, he reviewed 
his studies, and made some additional preparation under the 
instruction of Mr. George Morey (H.C. 1811), who was then a 
student-at-law in Boston. On the 9th of February, 1814, Mr. 
Morey offered him for admission into Harvard College. He 
bore a very satisfactory examination, and was admitted into the 
sophomore class by the unanimous voice of his several examin- 
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likely to insure to him a satisfactory progress through college. 
He entered at an advanced standing, and became at the outset a 
member of the sophomore class. At the High School in Edin- 
burgh he had been thoroughly drilled in Latin and Greek, and 
his manner of pronouncing Greek and reciting in these studies 
■was peculiar and striking. His advent at Cambridge produced 
quite a sensation among the students. His dress and manners 
attracted much notice. Certain members of his class, and also of 
the two upper classes, whose companionship was not calculated 
to be particularly beneficial to him, sought his acquaintance. 
They were disposed to express surprise at his acquirements, and 
at all times they courted and Mattered him. He frequently spoke 
of the feats and exploits perpetrated at the High School in Edin- 
burgh, and often gathered a crowd around him while he nar- 
rated what lie had seen and done. He often expressed much 
admiration of the arrangements at the school he had just left ; 
and, finding the rules to which he was now subject very different 
from those he had been accustomed to, he was not slow to mani- 
fest his dissatisfaction and disgust with the regulations at Cam- 
bridge. This state of feeling led him not unfrequently to dis- 
regard and disobey them, and he was encouraged to do so by 
his associates. In consequence of this, he was several times 
called to account by the officers of the college ; and, when ar- 
raigned, he was not inclined to manifest a proper respect or 
deference to those who administered admonition to him. At 
length, on the Gth of November, 1814, having become involved 
in a complication of ordinary college difficulties, his relations 
with the university were, by a vote of the faculty, wholly sus- 
pended. He then left Cambridge, and went to Groton, Mass. ; 
and there pursued his studies under the direction of his former 
instructor, Mr. Morey, who had entered his name as a student- 
at-law in the office of the Hon. Luther Lawrence (H.C. 1801). 
He remained at Groton about six months, where his conduct was 
unexceptionable ; and he fully kept up with his class in their 
studies. On the 29th of May, 1815, he was again offered by 
Mr. Morey for admission ; and, having borne a very good exam- 
ination, he was again restored to his former standing in college. 



1858-59.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 2G1 

At the commencement in 1816, he took his degree; but, as 
might well have been expected, he had no share in the special 
honors of the day. 

After leaving college, he went to Gottingcn, and there took 
up his residence, in company with Mr. Joseph G. Cogswell 
(H.C. 1800). After remaining a considerable time at Gb'ttin- 
gen, he, with Mr. Cogswell, made an extensive tour, and visited 
various parts of Europe. In due time he returned to the United 
States. He married, about the year 1824, Henrietta Steuart, 
daughter of Dr. James Steuart, formerly of Annapolis, Md., 
and afterwards of Baltimore. The children of this marriage are 
four, — two sons and two daughters. Their names are Rebecca 
(now the wife of Lieut. H. C. Marin, of the navy), James 
Steuart, Charles, and Henrietta Augusta. James Steuart 
graduated at Harvard College in 1848, and Charles in 1854. 

In the year 183G, Mr. Thorndike left Boston, with his family, 
for the purpose of proceeding to Scotland, and taking up his 
residence there for an indefinite length of time. On his arrival' 
in Scotland, he took a lease, for a term of years, of an estate 
situated not far from Edinburgh, with a preserve attached there- 
unto, well stocked with game. On this estate he resided several 
years, amusing himself by shooting game in the season, and 
by fishing in the Tweed and the various waters in Scotland. He 
was as enthusiastic an angler as Izaak Walton. He visited the 
coast of Norway with a friend from Boston, and spent several 
days in fishing on the coast of that country. He invented a fly, 
which he used for the purpose of catching fish. It was called 
the Thorndike fly, and became very famous throughout Scotland. 
Such was his success with this artificial fly, that he was invited 
to go to Arundel, in England, and use it for the purpose of 
catching mullet in the river Arun. This was a favorite fish with 
Heliogabalus and other Roman emperors. They often paid for 
it at the rate of a sestertium ($40) for a pound. The Duke of 
Norfolk, through whose estate this stream runs, has a regulation 
forbidding the taking of mullet by the seine, net, or spear ; and 
as this wary fish cannot be caught by a hook used in the ordi- 
nary mode, which fact his sagacious lordship well knew, the 



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above regulation amounted to an entire prohibition. But Mr. 
Thorndike declined going to Arundel for the purpose suggested, 
until the consent of the noble duke should be first obtained. He 
remarked that it should not be said that an American gentleman 
had attempted to practise any circumvention upon the Earl-Mar- 
shal of England. 

After Mr. Thorndike had resided several years in Europe, he 
returned, with his family, to the United States, lie became owner 
of a beautiful estate in Newport, It. I., which he occupied a con- 
siderable period, until the marriage of his eldest daughter with 
Lieut. Marin. After this event, he sold his estate, broke up his 
establishment at Newport, and went, with his family, to Europe. 
He came to Boston in 1856, and remained here several months. 
He, at this time, took an active part in the management of his 
property. He built a block of stores on the site of the old Com- 
mercial Coffee-house, and to some extent superintended the work 
himself. He went back to Europe, and spent most of his time in 
Paris ; and again, in the month of June, 1858, he returned to 
Boston, for the purpose of purchasing a mansion-house in this 
city, to be occupied by himself and his wife during their remain- 
ing days. At the time of his return, and for some months 
afterwards, he appeared to be in excellent health. In the course 
of the summer, he set about making that long will, which has 
been published, has attracted much attention, and has been point- 
edly commented on in divers newspapers. It was completed 
and executed 24 September, 1858 ; and was deposited, by order 
of the testator, in the office of the Probate Court for the county 
of Suffolk; to which tribunal he, without doubt, expected and 
intended it should, upon his decease, be presented for allowance 
and approval. This will bears, in a peculiar manner, the im- 
press of Mr. Thorndike's mind. It is obviously the result of 
much reflection and consideration ; and is, in a great measure, 
his own handiwork. Undoubtedly he received assistance on the 
occasion from one or more friends learned in the law. The 
circumstance that it is all in his own handwriting, furnishes, to 
those who knew him well, pregnant evidence that he took a deep 
interest in the matter, and devoted particular attention to the 



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preparation of this elaborate instrument. This is not the place 
to discuss the character of this important document, or the 
merits of some of its provisions, the nature of which resulted 
from a certain family-difficulty. What the precise character of 
this difficulty may have been, no one can fully know and compre- 
hend but the parties themselves : while there is no doubt, that, 
if he had consulted any of his judicious friends as to what sort 
of a will he should make, a very different instrument, in one 
important particular at least, would have been the result of such 
consultation : but the testator, in this case, chose to make and 
publish his own will, and not that of a friend. The will actually 
executed is emphatically Mr. Thorndike's own will. He alone 
is responsible for all its provisions, and he expected to be so 
responsible. It is just such a will as those who best knew Au- 
gustus Thorndike would have expected him to make, under the 
circumstances stated by him in the instrument. 

Mr. Thorndike possessed much intellectual power and vigor. 
His mind was highly cultivated. He was a good classical 
scholar. He was a great reader of ancient and modern history. 
He had visited the most interesting portions of Europe. He 
had seen much, and had an excellent opportunity to make 
discriminating observations upon men and manners. He pos- 
sessed a large fund of accurate information in relation to Euro- 
pean society, and was familiar with its prevailing manners, 
customs, and usages. He possessed colloquial powers of a 
high order. He could make his conversation exceedingly pleas- 
ant and interesting. His bearing was that of a gentleman. 
His manners indicated good breeding, and a perfect knowledge 
of the forms and civilities belonging to the best society. In 
his opinions and feelings, he was always conservative. He was 
early taught to respect and venerate the principles of Theophi- 
lus Parsons, Nathan Dane, George Cabot, and other Essex 
statesmen. He was, during the greater part of his life, on 
terms of intimacy and friendship with many distinguished 
noblemen in England and Scotland. 

He was averse to labor, especially of an ordinary kind ; but 
he was capable of great physical exertion, and would not shrink 



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from long, vigorous, and continued effort in any tiling about 
which he felt a particular interest. Pride was not a stranger to 
his bosom. He was always desirous of having reason to be 
proud of every member of his family, and of whatever posses- 
sion belonged to him. Any disappointment, therefore, in this 
respect, was to him a sore grievance and mortification. He 
was ever anxious to give all his children a perfect education. 
On some occasions, there were indications of his being actuated 
by a spirit of jealousy. He manifested much sensibility when 
he suspected that some wrong or fraud was intended to be prac- 
tised upon him. Nothing provoked him so much as to discover 
that he had been deceived, or imposed upon. He was slow 
to forget or forgive a supposed injury of this kind, especially 
when he thought it had been accomplished by concealment or 
management. He had an iron will ; and, whenever he had 
given formal notice of a particular purpose, he was very certain 
to fulfil it. When he had made a decision or resolve, the thing 
was fixed, and a change in his determination could hardly be 
expected. If, like the Israelitish captain, he made a vow, like 
him he was sure to perform it. He never harbored, for any 
length of time, those ordinary resentments which many per- 
sons persistently cherish. He uniformly entertained much re- 
spect for those who had been his tutors and instructors, and 
always expressed kind feelings towards them. Those who had 
been strict and severe in their discipline formed no exception to 
this rule. Notwithstanding he received some rebuffs during his 
residence at Cambridge, he manifested much affection for the 
university. He sent his two sons to Harvard College, where 
they graduated in due course ; and in his last will, which has 
been so much criticised, he remembered his Alma Mater, and 
gave a legacy of twenty thousand dollars to establish a profes- 
sorship of music at the college, to be managed, as far as prac- 
ticable, according to the statutes of the University of Oxford. 
His provision respecting the management of the professorship 
is perfectly characteristic of the testator. 

No one could question his veracity or honesty. Whatever 
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debt he owed he was certain to pay promptly, and to the utter- 
most farthing. Every promise he made, or contract he entered 
into, he never failed to perform, in the spirit and to the letter. 
\Vhile he exacted strict and perfect justice of others, such jus- 
tice he was at all times ready to do on his part. This was with 
him a constant maxim and fixed principle of conduct. He was 
conscious of having committed errors during his career. This, 
notwithstanding his pride, he on several occasions confessed to 
some of his most intimate and confidential friends. He often 
regretted that he had not studied a profession, or engaged in 
some business, which would have required constant attention, 
and given him regular employment. One circumstance should 
not be forgotten in this connection. He eschewed the great 
mistakes often committed by the sons of rich men. He not 
only did not waste or impair the large pi'operty derived from 
his father's will, but greatly increased it by his prudence and 
good management. For this, his family certainly have much 
reason to express feelings of pride and thankfulness. Every 
member thereof may well be particularly grateful, that, by the 
provisions Mr. Thorndike has made for his worthy and excellent 
wife, he has given her the means, in her own judicious way, to 
make amends, in a great degree, for the most objectionable 
feature of her husband's will ; and it is hoped that it will not 
be deemed impertinent to suggest, in conclusion, that her quiet 
and prudent management will be vastly more likely to promote 
justice and equity, the peace of the family, and the good of all 
concerned, than a long and protracted course of litigation. 

1820. — Charles Butterfield died in Tyngsborough , 
Mass., 26 July, 1858, aged 62. He was son of Capt. Asa 
and Abiah (Colburn) Butterfield, and was born in Tyngs- 
borough, 21 December, 1795. He was fitted for college at 
Westford Academy. Having chosen the profession of law, he 
pursued his legal studies under the tuition of Hon. Daniel 
Richardson, of Tyngsborough. On the completion of his pro- 
fessional studies, and having been admitted to the bar, he 
opened an office in his native town ; but relinquished the profes- 
sion a few years afterwards, and devoted himself to agriculture. 

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Pie was never married. lie was a man of a most amiable and 
genial disposition, with a fund of wit ever at command. He 
was one of the four, of the class of 1820, who established in 
1818, in college, the renowned "Med. Fac. Society." The 
other three were James Ferdinand Decring, of Portland, Me. ; 
David Priestley Hall, of Pomfret, Conn, (now of New-York 
City) ; and the writer of this notice. 

Mr. Butterfield was universally esteemed by the inhabitants 
of his native town. Pie represented the town in the state legis- 
lature in 1834 and 1835. Possessed of the most kind and 
philanthropic feelings, he was always ready to afford his ser- 
vices to benefit his fellow-beings. At the bedside of the sick, 
he was unwearied in his watchings ; to the afflicted, he was a 
comforter; to those who needed counsel in worldly matters, his 
services were always freely given ; and, being a well-read law- 
yer, he had great influence in preventing litigation. 

In 1857, he was appointed librarian of the Middlesex Me- 
chanic Association in Lowell, and took up his residence in that 
city. It was a quiet place among books ; and, with the changes 
contemplated, was just the situation where he hoped to pass, in 
a manner suited to his tastes, among pleasant companions, many 
long years of a healthy and vigorous old age. He was in per- 
fect health, was careful of himself, and was of a long-lived race ; 
his father having lived, in robust health, to the age of 94 
years. But it was decreed otherwise. In the midst of the hap- 
piness he enjoyed in his new position, and the pleasure which his 
friends took in having him there, he was suddenly, in February, 
1858, attacked with a disease of the heart, which satisfied him 
at once that his plans for the future were soon to come to an 
end. He remarked, that, amid all the death-scenes he had wit- 
nessed, he had always hoped for a sudden exit for himself, and 
was happy that the nature of his disease promised this. But in 
this he was not gratified. He went home to die, contentedly 
and patiently ; but for weeks he lingered with great suffering, 
though with perfect submission to his fate. He was greatly 
beloved and respected by the people among whom he passed 
nearly the whole of his life; and who, in his death, mourn the 
loss of a worthy, good man. 



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1822. — Rev. Benjamin Clark Cutler Parker died in 
New- York City, 28 January, 1859, aged 62. He was the sixth 
son of Bev. Samuel (H.C. 1764) and Anna (Cutler) Parker, 
and was born in Boston, 6 June, 1796. His father was rector 
of Trinity Church, Boston, and bishop of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church in Massachusetts. Deprived of the directing care 
of his father before he had completed his eighth year, he enjoyed 
the careful tutelage of a Christian mother, whose fidelity and 
consistency were a lantern in his path. He entered the Boston 
Latin School in the year 1808 ; and, having successfully pursued 
a literary course in that institution for three years, he left, and 
went into the counting-house of Blodget, Power, and Wheeler, 
where he remained until the dissolution of that firm, when he 
was transferred to the counting-house of the late James Carter, 
on Central Wharf. Soon after the breaking-out of the Avar, he, 
being of the age at which military duty was required, was 
draughted from the militia to serve on the defenceless forts in 
Boston harbor ; but a substitute was obtained by his employer, 
with whom he remained a year or two longer, when, by one of 
those little incidents directed by the guiding Spirit, he was led 
to the determination to devote himself to the Christian ministry. 
One Sunday, after attending the services of the church, he 
was thoughtlessly induced to enter one of those places of re- 
freshment which the vigilant eye of the law often overlooks or 
ignores ; and, on coming out of that place, his thoughts became 
ill at ease, at what, from maternal instruction, he was convinced 
was a violation of the sanctity of the Lord's day. He at first 
thought of the pain it would give to a Christian mother, should 
she knoAv where he had been ; and this reflection was followed 
by a consideration of the reasons why she would disapprove of 
such a resort on such a day. Stung by the reflection, his walk 
homeward was prolonged, he knew not whither, until he reached 
the open air and sunshine of the country. There was a quiet- 
ness around him not in unison with his feelings within ; and it 
became evident to him that he was the object of an internal 
struggle between the world above and that below. By the grace 
of God, the world below was vanquished ; nor did he rest until 



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lie had resolved to give himself heart and soul to the service of 
God. This was the beginning of a new life. From that time, 
he determined to relinquish the flattering prospects of mercantile 
advancement before him, and to renew his studies under the 
direction of that rare and ripe classical scholar, the late Rev. 
Dr. John S. J. Gardiner, of Trinity Church, the assistant and 
successor of his father, with the view of preparation for the min- 
istry. He was soon prepared for college, and entered in 1818. 
In his freshman year, he obtained a Bowdoin prize for an essay 
on the Life and Character of Dr. Johnson.* He graduated with 
high rank. His religious sympathies received fostering encour- 
agement under the faithful ministry of the Rev. Dr. Asa Eaton 
(H.C. 1803), of Christ Church, of which he became a commu- 
nicant in 1816, two years before his entrance into college. 
"While preparing for the ministry, he opened a private school in 
the vestry of St. Paul's Church, in his native city ; and, as a 
remarkable instance of his perseverance, it may be mentioned, that 
for nearly four months he here labored with only three pupils. 
His persevering fidelity, however, was soon rewarded ; and he 
was compelled to limit his numbers, and deny many applications 
for admission. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Griswold, 
in Trinity Church, Boston; and was admitted to priest's orders 
at St. Michael's Church, in Bristol, R.I., 17 May, 1826. Soon 
after his ordination, he gave up his school, then in the full tide 
of successful experiment, for the beloved object of his heart, — 
the work of the Christian ministry. His first labors were in the 
church in Gardiner, Me. ; but, by the persuasion of his bishop, 
he was induced to visit Lenox, in Massachusetts, to attempt 
to resuscitate a church then almost extinct in that place. Be- 
coming interested in this new field of labor, he remained six 
years in that beautiful but retired village, instead of a few months 
as he expected. From Lenox he removed to Woodstock, 
Vt., where he labored for a similar period. He afterwards 
labored in Plainfield and other places for three years ; uniting, 
as it were, the labors of a pious missionary with those of a faith- 

* This production will be found entire in the " Aids to English Composition," :i 
work prepared by his brother, Richard Greene Parker (H.C. 1817), p. 380. 



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ful parish-priest. In 1842, he removed to the city of New York, 
and supplied the Church of the Ascension during the absence of 
its rector, the present Bishop of Massachusetts. He subsequent- 
ly took charge of a church in Flushing, L.I., for six months ; 
when he was invited to the scene of his last labors, the "Float- 
ing Chapel for Seamen," where for more than fifteen years he 
labored with singular ability and fidelity. This was a field of 
labor entirely congenial to his taste, and for which he pos- 
sessed signal qualifications. The hardy mariners, they who 
go down to the sea in ships, and behold the wonders of the Lord 
on the deep, were met with a sympathy, which, like a key, 
opened the secrets of their souls ; and thousands of volumes — 
Bibles, prayer-books, tracts, religious stories — were sent on their 
missionary labors in the ships' forecastles ; and many a foot, that 
came to the chapel to scoff, "remained to pray." His labors 
were brought to a sudden close. He died, after an illness of 
six days, of congestion of the lungs. His physical sufferings 
during this period were intense ; but his mind was clear, tran- 
quil, and composed. He was fully aware of his situation ; but 
his soul, in perfect peace, reposed in Christ. Disdaining all 
dependence on his own merits, he trusted solely to the atoning 
sacrifice of his Saviour for his acceptance at the mercy-seat ; and, 
with simple, childlike faith, he resigned himself wholly — to 
use his own words — "to the adorable, lovely, blessed will of 
God ; " and,, in this delightful frame of mind, he passed at last, 
without a struggle or a groan, to a blissful immortality. 

He married, 7 February, 1833, Frances, daughter of the 
late Dr. Shirley Erving, — a descendant of the celebrated Gov. 
Shirley, — a lady whose religious sympathies had long been in 
unison with his own, and with whom he enjoyed a life of matri- 
monial harmony, extending over a period of more than a quarter 
of a century. She survived him. They had no children. 

1825. — Dr. Clifford Dorr, of Boston, died in the McLean 
Asylum, Somerville, Mass., 19 August, 1858, aged 52. He 
was son of John and Esther (Goldthwait) Dorr, and was born 
in Boston, 2 November, 1805. He was fitted for college at the 
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medicine under the instruction of Dr. George Hay ward, of Bos- 
ton (II. C. 1809) ; and received the degree of M.D. in 1829. 
He practised his profession in Braintree and Quincy, Mass., and, 
for a short time, in Matagorda, Tex. On the 6th of Septem- 
ber, 1840, he sailed from New York, as a passenger, in the ship 
tf Coriolanus," Francis A. Bertody (his brother-in-law), master, 
to Sydney, New South Wales ; and returned home by way of 
Calcutta and St. Helena ; arriving at New York in January, 
1842. In March, 1855, he was seized with a severe paralysis 
of the brain ; from which, however, he partially recovered the 
following year, and his convalescence continued for five months : 
but in December, 1856, he experienced a second attack, which 
so affected his mental faculties, that it became necessary to re- 
move him to the Hospital for the Insane, in Somerville, where 
he remained until death closed the scene. He was never mar- 
ried. 

1826. — Dr. Samuel Sawyer died in Cambridge, Mass., 
5 January, 1859, aged 54. He was son of Samuel Flagg and 
Patience (Learned) Sawyer, and was born in Cambridge, 20 
March, 1804. His father was a mason in Cambridge, and was 
born in Sterling, Mass. His mother was a native of Water- 
town, Mass., and survived him. After leaving college, he was 
for some time employed as a teacher in Chelmsford, Mass. He 
then began the study of medicine ; and after going through a 
regular course, and receiving the degree of M.D., he settled as 
a physician in Fairhaven, Mass., where he practised with good 
success for several years. Soon after the discovery of gold in 
California, about the year 1849, he was applied to by a company 
to go to that place ; which application he accepted, and went 
round Cape Horn. On his arrival there, he resumed the prac- 
tice of his profession, and also kept an apothecary 's-shop. After 
remaining there about four years, he returned, and settled in 
Cambridge, where he passed the remainder of Ins life. He was 
a very successful agent, for a year or two, among the poor in 
Cambridge, during which time he published one or two reports. 
He was also a member of the city-council; and, in 1857 and 
1858, was one of the school-committee. He was highly es- 



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teemed as a physician and a citizen. He married, 23 Novem- 
ber, 1833, Miss Lucy Tufts, of Charlestown, Mass., by whom 
he had six children, — all daughters, — who, with their mother, 
survive him. 

1830. — Horatio Srrague Eustis died at his plantation 
in Issaquena County, Miss., 5 September, 1858, aged 46. 
He was son of Gen. Abraham (H.C. 1804) and Rebecca 
(Sprague) Eustis, and was born at Fort Adams, Newport, 
R.I., 25 December, 1811. He was fitted for college at Round- 
Hill School, Northampton, Mass., under the superintendence 
of Joseph Green Cogswell (H.C. 1806) and George Ban- 
croft (H.C. 1817). After leaving college, he studied law; 
went to the West ; and finally settled, as a lawyer, in Natchez, 
where he continued in the practice of his profession, with the 
exception of an interval of a year or two, until his death. He 
married, 10 May, 1838, Catharine, daughter of Henry Chotard, 
a planter. He left a widow and ten children, seven sons and 
three daughters. 

1830. — Rev. Barzillai Frost died in Concord, Mass., 
8 December, 1858, aged 54. He was born in Effingham, N.H., 
18 June, 1804. He was fitted for college at Exeter (N.H.) 
Academy, under the charge of Benjamin Abbot, LL.D. (H.C. 
1788) , and graduated at that institution with the highest honors. 
He then entered the sophomore class at Harvard. While in 
college, he held a high rank in his class, and graduated with dis- 
tinction. On leaving college, he was appointed preceptor of 
Framingham Academy, which situation he held two years. In 
1832, he entered the Divinity School at Cambridge, where he 
completed his theological studies. During this period, he was 
appointed instructor in mathematics to the senior class in the 
college, in place of Prof. Farrar, who visited Europe for the bene- 
fit of his health. This situation he filled two years, pursuing his 
theological studies at the same time. On leaving the Divinity 
School, he began to preach ; and in January, 1836, received an 
invitation to settle as pastor of the Unitarian Church and Society 
in Barnstable, Mass. ; and, in September of the same year, he 
received a call to settle in Northfield, Mass. : both of which 



272 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1858-59. 

invitations he declined. On the 1st of February, 1837, he was 
ordained as colleague with Rev. Ezra Ripley, D.I). (II. C. 1776), 
over the Unitarian Church and Society in Concord. Dr. Ripley 
died lM September, 1841, at the age of 90 years; and Mr. 
Frost continued in the uninterrupted, active, and successful dis- 
charge of his duties as pastor until the autumn of 1855, when, 
in consequence of a severe cold, his lungs became seriously 
affected, and he was obliged to relinquish his pastoral duties. 
In February, 1856, he sailed for St. Thomas ; and, after spend- 
ing nearly three months on that island, and on the islands of 
Jamaica, Cuba, and St. Croix, he returned to the United States. 
He came home by way of Charleston, S.C. ; and reached Con- 
cord the last of May. His health continuing feeble, he sailed on 
the 24th of November for St. Croix, where he passed about five 
months ; and, on his return, he visited the Island of Bermuda, 
where he remained several weeks. He arrived home the latter 
part of June, 1857. His health being still in a very precarious 
state, he was obliged, on the 13th of September, 1857, to ask a 
dismission, which was granted with great reluctance ; his parish- 
ioners unanimously expressing on the occasion their great regret 
that the interesting relation which had so long existed between 
them and their beloved pastor should be terminated, and mani- 
festing in various ways their strong and affectionate regard for 
him. His pastoral relation closed on the 3d of October, 1857. 

A few weeks before the termination of his connection with 
the church and society, he suffered a severe affliction in the de- 
parture from this life of his distinguished and excellent parish- 
ioner, the Hon. Samuel Hoar (H.C. 1802). One of the last, 
and probably the very last sermon which he wrote, was that which 
he preached on the Sunday after the interment of his lamented 
and faithful friend. Though written by Mr. Frost while in a 
feeble state of health, it was a full and just tribute to the memory 
of a great and good man. For a period of about twenty years, 
Mr. Frost performed all the duties of an active, zealous, and 
faithful minister. Every good cause found in him an earnest 
and efficient friend and advocate. His ministry was a very use- 
ful and successful one. A satisfactory evidence of this is, that, 



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during the whole course of his labors at Concord, he secured the 
entire respect, and enjoyed the uninterrupted confidence and 
friendship, of Samuel Hoar. 

On the 24th of November, 1857, Mr. Frost, accompanied 
by his faithful and excellent wife, and his youngest son, a very 
interesting boy of about ten years of age, sailed from Boston 
for Fayal, one of the Azores, in the hope that it might restore 
him to health. After remaining; at the island about eight 
months, he returned to his native shore. He ai'rived at Boston 
on the 17th. of August, 1858. His visit to Fayal was a most 
unfortunate movement. It happened that the weather was, for 
a considerable time, cold and chilly : so inclement a season was 
never before known at that island. Mr. Frost suffered very 
much on account of the cold and dampness ; and it became 
manifest that there was little or no chance of his recovery. In 
the midst of his suffering, a most distressing affliction befell him, 
in the loss of the child who accompanied him. On the 31st of 
May, the lovely boy went up a mountain near the residence 
of his parents, in company with a party of friends; and, on 
their return, he deviated from the path usually taken, and fell 
over a precipice into a ravine about seventy feet deep : by 
the fall his spine was broken. After lingering about two days, 
he expired in the arms of his distressed mother. Great sympa- 
thy was manifested on the occasion by the members of the 
several very respectable families of Fayal ; and great kindness 
was shown to Mr. Frost and his family by all the people, during 
their residence on the island. 

On the arrival of Mr. Frost at Boston, he was in a very 
prostrate condition ; and was borne from the ship to the resi- 
dence of a friend in the city, where he remained about a week. 
He was then carried to Concord, and was "there received into 
the house of his kind and faithful friend and physician, Dr. 
Josiah Bartlett (H.C. 1816). Finding himself in so com- 
fortable a mansion, among a host of his friends, consisting of 
his former parishioners and other esteemed acquaintances, his 
spirits revived, and his strength seemed to be considerably 
improved. He rode out a few times, and had the satisfaction 

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274 NECROLOGY OF ALl'MXI [1868-59. 

of taking ;i parting look al the places endeared to him as hav- 
ing been the scenes of the cares and pleasures with which he 
was conversant during his Christian ministry. lie took great 
comfort in being able to Bee and converse with his < 1 < ■ .- 1 1 • friends 

once more. At length, he began to grow weaker; and, about 
the 1st of November, the symptoms <>f a speedy dissolution 

were manifested : bul he still lingered until the ' s tli of Decem- 
ber, when, in the presence of his wile and son, and his faithful 
physician and other dear friends, his spirit took its flight t<> 
another and a better world, 

Mr. Frost married, 1 June, 1837, Elmira Stone, youngest 
daughter of Daniel and Sally (Buckminster) Stone, of Fra- 
mingham. They had four children, two of whom died in infan- 
cy. Another died in Faval, under the circumstances above 
mentioned. The surviving son graduated at Harvard College 
in 1858; and became a student-at-law in the office of Hon. 
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, in Boston (II. C. 1835). This son 
stood by the bedside to smooth the pillow and administer to the 
wants of his languishing parent. The faithful and affectionate 
wife devoted herself, with unremitting care and watchful ne.--. to 
the beloved husband through all the stages of his disease, until 
the last moment came, when she closed his eves, and witnessed 
with what faith and hope a Christian could die. 

1834. — Eugene Fuller was drowned from on board the 
steamship "Empire City," 21 June, 1859, on the passage from 
New Orleans to New York md Havana. He was forty-four 
years old. He was the eldest son of Hon. Timothy (H.C. 
1801) and Margaret (Crane) Fuller, and was born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., 14 May, 1815. After leaving college, he 
studied laws partly at the Law School in Cambridge, and 
partly in the office of George Frederick Farley, Esq., of Gro- 
ton, Mass. (H.C. 1816). After his admission to the bar, he 
practised his profession two years in Charlestown, Mass. He 
afterwards went to New Orleans, and was connected with the 
public press of that city. He spent several summers there ; 
and, some two or three years ago, was affected by a sun-stroke, 
which resulted in a softening of the brain, and ultimately in a 



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brain-fever, which came very near proving fatal, and left him in 
a Shattered condition. His friends hoping that medical treat- 
ment at the North might benefit him, he embarked with an 
attendant on board the " Empire City," for New York. When 
one day out, his attendant being prostrated with sea-sickness, 
Mr. Fuller was left alone, and was not afterwards seen. He 
must have been lost overboard. The "New-Orleans Picayune" 
of the 30th June, with which he was some time connected, says, 
" His industry, reliability, and intelligence were equalled only by 
his invariably mild, correct, and gentlemanly demeanor ; and he 
was liked and respected by all who knew him." 

Mr. Fuller married Mrs. Rotter, a widow lady of New 
Orleans, originally of Philadelphia. They had five children, — 
three sons and two daughters. 

1835. — Dr. Aaron Larkin Leland died in Detroit, 
Mich., 14 November, 1858, aged 45. He was son of Jo- 
seph P. and Tryphena (Richardson) Leland, and was born in 
Sherburne, Mass., 21 August, 1813. His mother was daughter 
of Dr. Abijah Richardson, of Medway, Mass., a surgeon in the 
Revolutionary war. He was fitted for college by Mr. Nathan 
Ball (B.U. 1826), and Rev. Amos Clarke (H.C. 1804), of 
Sherburne. After leaving college, he pursued his medical stud- 
ies with Drs. Charles Harrison Stedman and Jerome Van 
Crowninshield Smith, of Boston. During his pupilage, he 
spent much of his time in various hospitals in the vicinity of 
Boston : viz., at the Marine Hospital in Chelsea, of which Dr. 
Stedman was then the physician ; at Rainsford Island, of which 
Dr. Smith was superintendent, and where Dr. Leland re- 
mained, and took much of the charge during a season when the 
small-pox was very prevalent ; and also at the Lying-in Hospi- 
tal on Boston Neck. In July, 1839, he removed to Pontiac, 
Oakland County, Mich. ; and settled there in the practice of 
his profession, in connection with Dr. Isaac Paddack, an old 
and esteemed practitioner of that place. In 1847, he removed 
to Detroit, where he continued in successful practice until his 
death. He was a thorough and scientific practitioner ; having 
brought to the aid of discriminating qualities of a high order, 



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and a judgment of great soundness, minute and extensive read- 
ing and a wide practice. He deservedly ranked among the 
first medical men of the day. In his personal attributes, he 
was eminently prudent, thoughtful, reflecting, and sagacious; 
correct in every principle; of scrupulous uprightness; prompt 
and diligent in his profession ; trustworthy and punctilious in 
every transaction. He won the esteem of all who knew him, 
by his urbane manners, his integrity of character, and his hu- 
mane disposition. He married, 17 June, 1856, Sarah Elizabeth 
Livermore, daughter of Hon. Isaac Livermore, of Cambridge, 
Mass. He had two children, — a son and a daughter. The 
former died in infancy : the latter, with her mother, survived 
him. 

1836. — Edward Augustus Ckowntnshield died in Bos- 
ton, 20 February, 1859, aged 41. He was the fourth son of 
Hon. Benjamin William and Mary (Boardman) Crowninshield, 
and was born in Salem, Mass., 25 February, 1817. He was 
fitted for college at Round-Hill School in Northampton, 
Mass., under the charge of Joseph Green Cogswell (H.C. 
1806) and George Bancroft (H.C. 1817). After leaving 
college, he went through a course of legal studies in the office 
of Franklin Dexter (H.C. 1812) and William Howard Gardi- 
ner (H.C. 1816), and w r as admitted to the bar, but never 
practised ; his pecuniary circumstances being such as not to 
require him to toil for his daily bread. About the first of 
December, 1859, in company with some friends, he went on a 
pleasure-excursion to Europe, and returned the next year. 
In 1856, he again went to Europe, with the hope that the 
voyage would be the means of restoring his health, which had 
been for some time previously in a delicate state. He spent the 
winter of 1856-7 at Pau, in the south of France ; thence he 
went to Madeira, where he passed the winter of 1857—8 ; and 
returned the following June, without having experienced any 
permanent relief. He was a gentleman of exceedingly pleasing 
manners and prepossessing appearance. Of an equable temper- 
ament, he had no ambition for public honors or political promi- 
nence ; but was a great lover of literature, and was passionately 



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fond of books. He had one of the rarest and choicest private 
libraries in this part of the country. His taste in bibliography 
was exquisite. He wanted not only the best books, but the best 
editions. His library was particularly rich in early American 
history and biography. He had a copy of the " Bay Psalm 
Book," the first book that was printed in New England. 
Among other rarities, he had an original copy of Cushman's 
" Plymouth Sermon ; " " Purchas his Pilgrimes ; " Smith's " His- 
tory of Virginia and New England" (an original copy); 
" Hypocrisie Unmasked," by Edward Winslow ; Hakluyt's Voy- 
ages, published in 1582; an original copy of "The Christian 
Commonwealth," by John Eliot ; and a similar copy of "Brad* 
ford and Winslow's Relation," published in London ; " The 
Schoolmaster," by Roger Aschain ; "Coryat's Crudities" of 
1611, from the library of the Duke of Sussex; "The Whole 
Book of Psalms," by Sternhold and Hopkins ; a book on 
angling, by Bernes, bearing date of 1486; the "Nuremburg 
Chronicle " of 1493 ; King James's Works ; Dibdin's biblio- 
graphical works ; and " Samuel Gorton's Answer to Morton's 
Memorial," in manuscript. 

Mr. Crowninshield read the books he bought, with discrimi- 
nation and profit. His mind, manners, and language indicated 
refinement and scholarship. His whole life was regulated by 
good sense, good taste, and good feeling. He secured the 
esteem, the confidence, the affection, of all who were sufficiently 
acquainted with him to know his true character. He was for 
some time a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, and took a deep 
interest in the art-exhibitions of 'that institution. He was 
elected, 11 November, 1858, a member of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society ; an honor to which his scholarly acquire- 
ments and literary taste justly entitled him. He married, 15 
January, 1840, Caroline Maria Welch, daughter of Francis 
AVelch, Esq., of Boston. They had three children, all sons; 
the eldest of whom graduated at Harvard College in 1861. 

1838. — Dr. William Augustus Briggs, of Boston, 
died in Baltimore, Md., 19 May, 1859, aged 39. He was the 
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born in Boston, 12 July, 1*19. His father, who was a na- 
tive of Little Compton, R.I, was a merchant in Boston, 
and died of consumption in Matanzas, Cuba (whither he had 
gone for the benefit of his health), 14 May, 1828, aged 37. 
His remains were brought hack to Boston, and conveyed 'to 
Watertown, Mass., for interment. His mother was a daughter 
of John Clark, Esq., of Watertown, where she was born 
March, 179G : she died in Boston, 19 January, 1854, aged 57. 
Young Briggs began his preparatory studies for admission into 
college at Woburn Academy, under the instruction of Alfred 
Washington Pike (D.C. 1815). Thence he went to Framing- 
ham Academy, under Barzillai Frost (H.C. 1830). At these 
institutions he remained four years ; and he completed his 
studies under Rev. Theodore Parker, of Watertown, afterwards 
of Boston, with whom he remained one year. After leaving 
college, he studied medicine at the Tremont Medioal School in 
Boston, under the charge of Drs. Jacob Bigelow (H.C. 1806), 
Edward Reynolds (H.C. 1811), David Humphreys Storer 
(Bowd.C. 1822), and Oliver Wendell Holmes (H.C. 1829). 
On completing his medical studies, he began the practice of his 
profession in Boston ; but, being left with an ample competence, 
it was not necessary for him to depend upon his profession as a 
means of support. Still, however, he was very successful ; and, 
until his health failed, was rapidly rising to distinction. He 
was of a most amiable disposition, and led a blameless and 
exemplary life. The death of his mother w^as a sad affliction 
to him, from which he seemed never to recover. The incipient 
symptoms of consumption not long afterwards began to develop 
themselves, and he endured a long and painful sickness. But, 
notwithstanding all his sufferings, not a word of complaint ever 
passed, his lips. In order to escape the rigors of a northern 
climate, he passed the last two winters of his life with a relative 
in Baltimore, where he received every attention and comfort 
which kind affection and endearment could procure, and where 
he calmly and peacefully passed away. He was never married. 
His remains were brought to the North, and interred at Mount 
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1838. — Asa Hammond Whitney died in Vicksbwrgr, 
Miss., 8 October, 1858, aged 39. He was son of Asa and 
Mary (Hammond) Whitney, and was born in Boston, 17 June, 
1819. After leaving college, lie made a voyage to the Mediter- 
ranean for his health, and subsequently went to Rio Janeiro as 
supercargo. On his return, he embarked in business as a 
junior partner in the house of Henshaw and Whitney, wholesale 
druggists, in Boston ; but for several years resided in Cambridge, 
where he built and occupied the house now owned by Charles 
Russell Lowell, Esq. He subsequently removed to Norfolk, 
Va. , where he managed the financial affairs of the Seaboard and 
Roanoke Railroad Company for many years with marked 
ability ; and, at the time of his decease, was filling an important 
trust in Mississippi. He was a man of great energy and ear- 
nestness of character, of warm and cordial feelings, and most 
courteous and winning manners ; of an ardent temperament and 
a strong will ; a most genial companion, and a steadfast friend. 
He married, 3 October, 1842, Miss Laura Leffingwell Hen- 
shaw, of Alabama, niece and adopted daughter of the late 
David Henshaw, of Leicester, Mass. He had five children, — 
viz., Laura Leffingwell, Anna Henshaw, Catharine Virginia, 
Hammond, and Emily, — who, with their mother, survived him. 

1843. — Joseph Hurd Walker, of West Townsend, 
Mass., died at the residence of Ins father, in Boston, 16 Octo- 
ber, 1858, aged 36. He was son of Dr. William Johnson 
Walker (H.C. 1810) and Eliza (Hurd) Walker, and was 
born in Charlestown, Mass., 19 September, 1822. He was 
fitted for college in Exeter, N.H. He held a very respectable 
rank in his class, and graduated with distinction. He was par- 
ticularly distinguished for talents in mathematics. After leaving 
college, he prepared himself for the profession of a civil-engi- 
neer, in which business he became quite distinguished. He 
made the surveys and superintended the construction of the 
Peterborough and Shirley Railroad, which he completed to the 
entire satisfaction of the stockholders, and at much less than 
the estimated cost. A few years afterwards he relinquished the 
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and devoted the remainder of his days to agriculture. lie 
married, in 1845, Anna M. Babbit, of Charlestown. They had 
Bis children, of whom five survived him : one died in 1855. 
His widow also survived him. 

1844. — JOSEPH Brown Smith died in Louisville, Ky., 
6 May, 1859, aged 36. He was born in Dover, N. II., 14 
March, 1823. At birth, his sight was perfect ; but, ere a week 
had passed, a disease fastened upon his eyes, which resulted in 
total, incurable blindness. When three years of age, he lost his 
father. His mother then removed to Portsmouth, X.H., where 
he passed eight years. The following sketch of his life is com- 
piled from a funeral discourse on his life and character, delivered 
by Rev. John H. Heywood, of Louisville (H.C. 183G). He 
was endowed with a mind active and vigorous, a memory very 
retentive and capacious. From early childhood, he was marked 
for his love, his yearning, for knowledge. Sent to school when 
but four years old, he was so fortunate as to have for his teacher 
a lady who had a just view of education, and whose schoolroom 
was pervaded by the afFectionateness which makes the charm of 
a home. When nine years of age, he was placed in the Institu- 
tion for the Blind in Boston, under the charge of Dr. Samuel 
Gridley Howe, who saw what was in the boy, and determined 
that it should be fully brought out. Under his instruction, he 
prosecuted his studies, until, at the age of seventeen, he was 
prepared to enter college. He passed through his collegiate 
course with credit to himself, and received, at its expiration, his 
diploma ; being the first totally blind man who ever graduated 
at any college in this country. He was a good scholar in Latin, 
Greek, and mathematics. He w r as a proficient in French and 
German, both of which languages he understood well, and 
spoke fluently ; and had an extensive and thorough acquaintance 
with the best English literature. He had a remarkable talent 
for music, in which, by his attainments, he became pre-eminent. 
At eighteen months, he could sing three tunes. When nine 
years of age, he composed a march. So fond of musical thought 
and expression was he, that, when a mere child, he w r as often 
overheard composing in his sleep. Sometimes, when between 



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the ages of eight and ten, strains and tunes taught him by his 
instructor would escape him ; and he would try in vain, before 
going to bed, to recall them. In his sleep they would come, 
as if conscious, that, having once been given him, they had no 
right to leave him long ; and then he would rise, go to the 
piano, and, like a true poet or sculptor, embody them, not in 
words or marble, but in harmony. Not far from the time when 
he entered college, he composed an overture, which was per- 
formed by the Boston Academy of Music, and which was deeply 
interesting, not only as a manifestation of his rare susceptibility 
and extraordinary capacity, but also of the wonderful knowledge 
he even then possessed of the deep, intricate science of music. 

In September, 1844, he went to Louisville, Ky., having 
been appointed professor of music in the Asylum for the Blind 
in that city ; and there he resided until his death. With so fine 
a susceptibility to the influence of music, with so thorough a 
knowledge of its principles, he was eminently fitted to appreci- 
ate and enjoy music of the highest order. In that he revelled. 
His soul responded to the songs and choral symphonies in which 
the great masters gave expression to thoughts and emotions too 
vast for words, too deep for tears. Such were the rare musical 
powers and attainments of this gifted man ; and how kindly and 
faithfully he employed them, there are many to testify. The 
private pupils whom he patiently instructed — all connected with 
that home for the blind to which he consecrated fourteen of the 
best years of his life, and for whose benefit he labored with the 
fidelity of an earnest, conscientious Christian teacher — can never 
forget him. He was a sincere, hearty Christian. He loved 
the Bible dearly. Eight years before his death, he connected 
himself with the church. In an earnest, humble, and devout 
spirit, he made the Christian profession, and sought to live in 
harmony with it. His resignation to the will of God was 
perfect, for life and for death, for time and eternity. 

He married, first, 9 August, 1846, Elizabeth Jane Cone, 
who died 14 June, 1851 ; and second, 26 July, 1853, Sarah 
J. Nash. He left two sons : the elder, the cliild of the first 
marriage, bearing the name of the great composer, Joseph 

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Haydn; the younger, named for an intimate friend, Biyce 
Patten. 

1848. — Enoch Lincoln Cummings died in Portland, Me., 
21 January, 1859, aged 31. He was son of Col. Simeon and 
Mary (Cushman) Cummings ; and was born in Paris, Me., 
23 May, 1827. His father, who was son of Jesse and Nancy 
Cummings, was born in Bridgewater, or Sutton, Mass. His 
mother was a native of Paris. He pursued his preparatory 
stndks mostly at North Yarmouth, Me. ; and entered Waterville 
College in 1843, where he remained one year and two terms. 
He then left ; went to Cambridge, where he continued his 
studies privately, and entered the sophomore class at Harvard 
in 1845. After graduating, he studied law a little more than a 
year with his brother, Benjamin C. Cummings, in Paris ; and 
then entered the office of William Willis (H.C. 1813), and 
William Pitt Fessenden (Bowd. C. 1823), in Portland, where 
he completed his legal studies ; and was admitted to practice 
in Cumberland county, in October, 1850. He immediately 
opened an office in Portland, and devoted himself entirely to 
business. His brother, with whom he studied in Paris, moved 
to Portland a few years after, where he died in 1857 or 1858. 
Their mother (a woman of great energy and good sense) and 
one brother survived him, both living in Paris. Their father 
has deceased. Had Mr. Cummings's life been spared, and 
an opportunity been given for the full development of his 
powers, his habits of industry and perseverance were such, that 
he would have attained a high rank in his profession. But, 
dear as was the tie which bound him to his associates in life, 
there was a closer and more endearing fellowship to which his 
surviving friends turned in the hour of their bereavement. The 
last year of his life was one of Christian activity and useful- 
ness, which makes up his brightest record. Having, about a 
year before his death, united with the church of which the Rev. 
Dr. Chickering was pastor, he entered at once heartily into 
the new service to which he committed himself; and carried 
into it the same elements of activity and devotion which had 
characterized him as a business-man. A meeting' of the mem- 



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bers of the Cumberland bar was held immediately after his 
death, at which appropriate resolutions were passed, expressive 
of their profound regret and sincere sorrow at the loss of their 
associate, and tendering to his wife and family their deepest 
sympathy and heartfelt sorrow for their bereavement. Mr. 
Cummings married, 28 July, 1852, Annie N. Clifford, only 
daughter of Hon. Nathan Clifford, of Portland, an associate- 
justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, formerly a 
member of Congress from Maine, attorney-general of the United 
States, and minister to Mexico. They had three children, all 
of whom survive. Judge Clifford began practice in Newfield, 
a small town in York county, Me. ; and removed to Portland 
about the year 184 ( J. 

1851. — Rev. George Bradford died in Watertown, 
Mass., 17 February, 1859, aged 30. He was son of Ephraim 
and Lucy (Peterson) Bradford, and was born in Duxbury, 
Mass., 3 June, 1828. He was a lineal descendant of Gov. 
Bradford of Plymouth Colony. He was fitted for college at 
Partridge Academy in Duxbury. While in college, he held 
a high rank as a scholar ; was elected by his classmates to 
deliver the class-oration at the close of the senior year, and 
graduated with distinguished honors. He returned to Duxbury 
at the end of his collegiate course, and was for two years pre- 
ceptor of the academy at which he had pursued his preparatory 
studies. In August, 1852, he became a member of the Unita- 
rian church in Duxbury ; and, about that time, he decided to 
enter the gospel-ministry, — a choice of profession of which his 
friends soon acknowledged the wisdom. He entered the Divin- 
ity School at Cambridge in 1853 ; and, after finishing the 
regular course of study, was ordained as pastor of the Unita- 
rian church in Watertown, 6 November, 1856. He had only 
time to fairly enter upon his career of professional and social 
usefulness, when the symptoms of consumption, of long stand- 
ing, perhaps, but hitherto scarcely observed, manifested them- 
selves ; and, after an illness of a few months, he gave way, 
and, sinking at the last rapidly, but peacefully died, surrounded 
by his friends and relatives, without pain and without regret. 



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" Ii is hard to leave the world when one has but just begun ln- 
work here," he said, on the last day of his life, to a near friend : 
"but death of itself lias no terrors." All those who knew him 
Intimately could well understand, that in that calm and stead- 
fast mind, trained to early maturity by a life of Christian 
virtue, and imbued with the deepest Christian faith, there waa 
no regret, except for those whom he left behind him. He 
was a devoted pastor, who brought to his work a mind of no 
ordinary depth and compass, a judgment singularly correct, 
and a devotion to duty which is rarely seen. His generous 
friendship never failed, while his exterior reserve covered a 
nature of wondrous geniality, and of genuine enthusiasm ; and 
his calm, upright, and resolute walk in life seemed the charac- 
teristics inherited from the Puritan governor from whom he 
was descended. Pie married, 18 February, 1857, Ruth Ann 
Ford, of Duxbury, who survives him. They had no children. 

1851. — Francis Oliver Dabney, of Boston, died in 
Beirut, Syria, 26 December, 1858, aged 28. He was son of 
Charles William and Frances Alsop (Pomeroy) Dabney, and 
was born in Fayal, Azores (where his father resided as Ameri- 
can consul), 17 March, 1830. His mother was formerly of 
Brighton, Mass. He was fitted for college mostly under tutors 
in Fayal, and the last year under the instruction of Eben Smith 
Brooks, of Cincinnati (H.C. 1835). Immediately after gradu- 
ating, he entered the counting-room of Messrs. Dabney and 
Cunningham, of Boston, for the purpose of preparing himself 
for the mercantile profession. He was subsequently admitted 
as a partner in that house, where he remained until his death. 
He was unmarried. On the 15th of September, 1858, he left 
New York, in the steamship "Africa," for Liverpool, on busi- 
ness of the house with which he was connected ; expecting to be 
absent about a year. Immediately after his arrival at Liver- 
pool, he proceeded east as far as Beirut, in which place and 
vicinity he intended to remain until his return home. He was 
in perfect health until near the middle of December ; when he 
was seized with an alarming illness, which, in two weeks, termi- 
nated fatally. Although he died in a distant land, he was but- 



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rounded by kind and sympathizing friends ; and all that love 
and skill could do was done to rescue him from death. The 
last three months of his life, he was the honored guest of a 
wealthy and influential Arab gentleman, who evinced a devo- 
tion and regard for him, in his last illness, that could not have 
been surpassed by the dearest relative. During the last days of 
Mr. Dabney's life, this gentleman never left his bedside ; and 
he saw the grave close over the object of his solicitude with a 
grief that did honor to his heart, and that told most eloquently, 
to all who witnessed it, what must have been the character of one 
who could inspire such affection. His mortal remains were laid 
in the beautifully-situated cemetery of the American mission. 
Mr. Dabney had not gone far enough in life's journey to be 
known to many beyond the circle of his friends ; but his energy 
and upright manliness struck all who came near him. Seldom 
are so much firmness and integrity, and such a chivalrous sense of 
honor, shown by one so young. For these noble qualities, he 
might well be esteemed by all who knew him. 

1851. — William Paisley Field, of Eandolph, Mass., 
died at the residence of his father, in Newton Lower Falls, 
Mass., 5 May, 1859, aged 31. He was the youngest son of 
Justin and Harriet (Power) Field, and was born in Northfield, 
Mass., 27 December, 1827. His father, now living in Newton, 
and doing business in Boston as a lawyer, was the son of Sam- 
uel Field, and was born in Northfield. His mother was born 
in Boston. The family removed to Boston when the subject of 
this notice was one year old. He entered the Boston Latin 
School in August, 1836; and left in the spring of 1841, on 
account of ill health. He remained at home a year or two ; 
after which he entered, as an apprentice, the flour-store of 
Messrs. Earle and Brown, No. 9, Lewis Wharf; where he re- 
mained about four years. He then suddenly determined to go 
to college ; left the store on the 1st of May, 1847, reviewed his 
studies by himself, and entered the freshman class the same 
year. He attained a high rank in his class, and graduated 
with distinguished honors. In his junior year, he gained a 
second prize for a dissertation. In his senior year, he taught 



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school for a short time in Harvard, Mass. He possessed 
great musical talent ; was organist at the Episcopal church 
in Cambridge, when in college ; and had constantly played the 
organ in church from the age of fourteen years. Two of his 
brothers — Thomas Power and Justin — graduated at Amherst 
College in 1834 and L835 respectively. On leaving college, he 
went to Philadelphia ; where he taught one year in the Protest- 
ant Episcopal Seminary. lie then returned, and spent the 
following year in teaching private pupils in Cambridge. He 
entered the Law School in Cambridge, at the second term in 
1853-4; and took his degree of LL.B. in July, 1855. In 
March, 1857, he began the practice of his profession in Ran- 
dolph, Mass. ; where he continued during the remainder of his 
life. He was unmarried. He was of an amiable disposition, 
and led a life of unblemished integrity. 

1853. — William Hexry Rowe died in Boston, 22 July, 
1858, aged 27. He w r as son of Samuel and Lydia Ann 
(Fletcher) Rowe, and was born in Boston, 6 October, 1830. 
His father was a native of Kensington, X.H. ; was a carpenter; 
and died in Boston, 28 August, 1843, aged 43. His mother 
was probably born in Newburyport, Mass. She died in Boston, 
13 October, 1830, aged 23. The subject of this notice, when 
five years of age, was accidentally hit on the left knee by a 
stone, which lamed him for life. He was fitted for college at 
the Boston Latin School, where a Franklin medal was awarded 
to him for his superior scholarship. While in college, he taught 
school during the winter vacations, in his freshman year, in 
Middleton, Mass ; in his sophomore year, in Deerfield, N.H. ; 
in his junior year, in Braintree, Mass ; in his senior year, in 
Taunton, Mass. He was a diligent student, his conduct was 
unexceptionable, and he graduated with high honors. Imme- 
diately after leaving college, he entered as a student the office 
of Fisher Allen Kingsbury, Esq., in Weymouth, Mass. ; under 
whose tuition he pursued the study of the law two years. 
While in this place, he was instrumental in establishing a de- 
bating society, of which he was the leading spirit, and which 
was highly successful. Meeting accidentally, in Boston, some 



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gentlemen from the West, lie was induced, by the flattering 
prospects held out for young lawyers in that part of the country, 
to go to Davenport, Io. ; where he entered the office of Hon. 
John P. Cook, who was at that time a representative in Con- 
gress from Iowa. Here he finished his legal studies ; and in 
March, 1856, he was admitted to the bar in Davenport. He 
immediately began practice, still continuing in the office of Mr. 
Cook. His success was very great ; and he was soon in full 
practice, with a brilliant prospect before him. He was a man 
of great energy ; and a too-constant attention to business prob- 
ably affected his health. 

Early in the year 1858, he experienced a change of heart, 
which induced him to resolve upon a different course of life. 
In a letter, dated 9 March, 1858, to a friend in Boston, he 
writes : " I humbly trust that I have become a Christian ; 
that God, in his infinite mercy, has pardoned me, through the 
atoning merits of Christ. I feel that I am weak indeed ; far, 
very far, from being established as a disciple of Christ : but I 
also feel that I have obtained something that I never had before ; 
that my life, slowly and waveringly indeed, is inclining up to 
God and Christ, and away from the world and death." He 
further adds : " I shall probably give up the profession of 
law, and study for the ministry; and I Earnestly pray to God 
that he will accept and prepare me for the holy work. With 
God's permission, I expect to enter the seminary at Andover at 
the commencement of the next term, viz., September next; and 
shall probably therefore return to the East in the course of a 
few months : when, I don't exactly know." 

But upon this new profession he was not permitted to enter. 
In March, the incipient symptoms of that fell disease, consump- 
tion, began to be developed, and rapidly increased; and it 
soon became manifest that death had marked him for its victim. 
His illness was not known to his friends here until some time 
afterwards ; but, when the sad news reached them, they took 
measures for his return to his native city. He reached Boston 
the 1st of July, in a state of extreme debility; and after three 
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he expired, with a full confidence of a joyful immortality. He 
was greatly beloved by hia acquaintances and relatives, who, 
from his blameless life and brilliant prospects, had anticipated 
for him a long career of success and usefulness. lie was 
unmarried. 

1853. — John Henry Sullivan was drowned in Lake 
Michigan, 27 August, 1858, aged 25. On the afternoon of 
that day, he and Mr. R. P. Jennings went out from Milwaukie 
lor a sail on the lake, in the "Galatea," a four-oared boat belong- 
ing to the Galatea Boat-club, of which Mr. Sullivan Avas a 
member. Both the gentlemen were skilful and experienced in 
the management of a boat : but a gale came on at nightfall, 
causing a heavy sea ; and they did not return. The members of 
the boat-club took a tug-boat, and went in search of their friends. 
In the mean time the tidings reached Chicago, where Mr. Sulli- 
van had resided for nearly two years previously to settling in 
Milwaukie ; and a party of his friends started immediately for 
Milwaukie, and joined in the anxious search for the missing ones. 
Fragments of the " Galatea " were found scattered along the shore 
for a distance of six or seven miles. She was a new and beau- 
tiful boat, and the fragments were easily identified by her owners 
and builder. Day after day the search was renewed, and re- 
wards were offered to enlist the services of the shore fishermen ; 
but each day weakened the slender hope that the young men had. 
been saved. The body of Mr. Jennings was at length found, 
half-buried in the sand ; but Mr. Sullivan's has never been 
recovered. lie was unmarried. He was the only son of John 
Whiting and Marion (Dix) Sullivan, of Boston, and was born 
in Dorchester, Mass. (where his parents were then temporarily 
residing), 30 October, 1832. He entered the Boston Latin 
School when only nine years old, but completed his preparatory 
studies at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. AVhile in 
college he bore an unblemished character, and was much beloved 
by his class. In Plymouth, Mass., where he spent several of 
his vacations, he had many true friends, who will long remem- 
ber him as a most genial companion, a kindly and pure-minded 
boy. After graduating, he studied law for two years in the 



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office of Baker and Peabody, in Concord, N.H. He then 
entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he completed his 
legal studies, and soon afterwards emigrated to the West. He 
settled first in Clinton, Io. ; but soon removed to Chicago, 
where he was induced to abandon the practice of his profession, 
and enter the commercial-agency office of B. Douglass and Co. 
Here he remained until the spring of 1858, when he went to 
superintend the Milwaukie branch of the agency. He was also 
connected, from time to time, with various newspapers in New 
England and the West, as correspondent, contributor, and lite- 
rary-critic. Wherever he went, he made warm and appreciating 
friends, both among his business acquaintance and in general 
society. Not only was he highly educated, thoroughly well 
read, possessed of business ability and decided literary and 
musical talent, a most sprightly wit and lively fancy, but he had 
a truly kind and pure heart. He never spoke slightingly of any 
one, was peculiarly generous and noble in his disposition, and 
invariably courteous to old and young, to rich and poor alike. 

When all hope of his safety was given up, the Galatea Boat- 
club met, and passed the following resolutions in regard to their 
lost brother : " Whereas Ave may no longer indulge the hope 
but that a sudden and grievous dispensation of Providence has 
severed the links of our brief association in the transition from 
this earth of a gifted and highly esteemed fellow-member, the 
going-out of whose life, in the full vigor of manhood and use- 
fulness, has filled our hearts with the profoundest sorrow ; and 
whereas, after long and patient endeavor, the poor consolation 
of recovering, and consigning to a fitting resting-place, all that 
remains to earth of our departed friend has thus far been denied 
us : therefore be it Resolved, That we deeply and sincerely de- 
plore the removal from this life of our late friend and fellow- 
club-man, John H. Sullivan, whose refined and scholarly attain- 
ments, blameless life, and generous impulses, endeared him by 
ties of no ordinary regard to each and every member of our 
association. Resolved, That to those, who, from ties of kindred 
or long and happy association, were nearer and dearer to our 
lost companion, unto whose hearts this great affliction shall 

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bring the tenderest Borrow, — to such, and to all who are com- 
pelled with us to taste of this bitter cup, we extend our kind- 
liest sympathy and condolence." The Wisconsin bar also passed 

a series of resolutions in expression of their kind feeling and 
respect for him. 

1854. — David Henry Mordecai, of Charleston, S.C., 
died in Nice, Italy, 22 January, 1859, aged 25. He was 
the eldest son of Hon. Moses Cohen and Isabel (Lyons) 
Mordecai, and was born in Charleston, 13 November, 1833. 
Both his parents were of Jewish origin. His father, who is a 
merchant, was born in Charleston in February, 1805 ; and is 
the son of Moses Cohen Mordecai, who was born in England. 
His mother, who is the daughter of Isaac and Rachel Lyons, 
was born in Philadelphia, during a temporary residence of her 
parents in that city, in March, 1805. Mr. Mordecai was fitted 
for college at home ; entered the junior class in South-Carolina 
College in December, 1851 ; and remained there until Decem- 
ber, 1852, when, with several others, he received an honorary 
dismissal (the college refusing to abolish the system of bursary 
commons), and entered Harvard the second term of the junior 
year. Here he immediately took a very high rank, and Avas 
one of the most brilliant scholars in his class. He remained 
until the 14th of April of the following year, when he was 
obliged to leave on account of the delicate state of his health ; 
but the college faculty conferred 4ipon him his degree with the rest 
of his class. He afterwards read law in the office of the Hon. 
James Lewis Petigru, of Charleston ; and then went to Europe 
to finish his studies and improve his health. But death, with its 
relentless hand, — who knows no distinction between man and 
man, between virtue and vice, genius and imbecility, — struck 
him down in his promising manhood, at the very threshold of 
the goal at which the hopes of his family and friends would have 
been realized. He was, in point of talents and attainments, 
perhaps the first man of his age in his native state. A brilliant 
sphere was opened before him : his future was a perspective ot* 
the brightest auguries. Possessing a mind among the quick- 
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the treasures of learning, a judgment ripe for his years, he 
united with these endowments that patient perseverance, with- 
out which natural gifts are the foliage without the fruit of intel- 
lectual culture. Alas that a life so rich in promise should be 
so soon ended ; that the associations which so intimately blended 
social with intellectual merit should be so suddenly severed ; 
that the memories of friendship, the anticipations of future 
eminence, the images of parental hope, the visions that cluster 
round one with faculties so gifted, and a life so radiant in its 
prospects, should have been so prematurely obliterated ! 

1854. — Alfred Hampton Preston, of Columbia, S.C., 
died in Rome, Italy, 16 January, 1859, aged 24. He was 
the eldest son of Hon. John S. and Caroline Martha (Hamp- 
ton) Preston, and was born in Abingdon, Washington county, 
V:i., 3 June, 1834. His father, a sugar-planter, was son 
of Gen. Francis Preston, whose wife, Sarah Campbell, was 
daughter of Gen. William Campbell, of King's - Mountain 
celebrity (where he was commander), and niece of Patrick 
Henry. His mother was daughter of Gen. Wade Hampton, 
and was born at The Woodlands, Richmond District, S.C. 
Gen. Hampton's second wife, Mary Cantey, of St. Matthew's 
Parish, S.C, was a niece of Gen, Sumter. Mr. Preston's 
father had established himself in Columbia, Richland District, 
S.C, where he married ; and he travelled to and from Virginia 
each season. His interest was in Louisiana, but his citizenship 
was in South Carolina ; and he was twice in the South-Carolina 
Legislature. Mr. Preston travelled much in the United States. 
He studied with a private tutor several years ; came to Cambridge 
15 July, 1852 ; and in six weeks, under James Coolidge Carter 
(H.C 1850), was prepared, and entered the junior class, 1 
September, 1852. After graduating, he went to Germany to 
continue his studies, which were cut short by a fever, which 
settled upon his lungs. The slow and insidious decline which 
followed, resisting all that human kindness could effect, served 
but to show in bright characters the beautiful confidence of the 
young Christian in his progress to the rich inheritance, through 
his Redeemer, of eternal life. In his later moments, his gentle- 



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ness and meek submission to the will of God were only exceeded 
by his cheerful enjoyment of that "peace which passeth under- 
standing," and which divested his dying bed of any fear of the 
destroyer. Cut down as he was in the brightest promise of 
early usefulness, his bereaved parents and sorrowing friends 
would not recall him from that bliss which is the attainment of 
the righteous. He was a high-toned gentleman, an affectionate 
and devoted son and brother, and a true friend. 



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1796. — Willi am Wells died in Cambridge, Mass., 21 
April, 1860, aged 87 years lacking six days. He was son of 
Rev. William and Jane (Hancox) Wells, and was born in 
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, 27 April, 1773. His 
father was a Unitarian clergyman, an intimate friend of Dr. 
Priestley. During the occurrence of the riots which drove that 
eminent theologian from his congregation and his home, Mr. 
Wells's chapel at Bromsgrove, fifteen miles from Birmingham, 
was threatened with destruction by the mob. In consequence 
of such a prospect, and the gloomy and distracted state of that 
part of the kingdom, he determined to emigrate with his family 
to America; and arrived in Boston in June, 1793. From 
Boston he went to Brattleborough, Vt., where he preached 
"the faith that was in him," but was not settled as pastor of any 
society. In 1818, the honorary degree of doctor of divinity 
was conferred upon him by Harvard College. He died in Brat- 
tleborough, 9 December, 1827, aged 83. Mr. Wells's mother 
was daughter of Rev. James Hancox, of Dudley, in Worces- 
tershire, England. Before coming to this country, Mr. Wells, 
jun., had gone through a course of studies at the college in 
Hackney, England ; having been fitted by the celebrated classi- 
cal scholar, Gilbert Wakefield. After he came to America, 
and before going to college, he taught school in Wethersfield, 
Conn. He entered college in the last term of the junior 
year in 1795, and at once took a high rank in his class. He 
was particularly distinguished for his attainments in the Latin 
and Greek classics. In 1798, he was appointed Latin tutor in 
the college ; an office which he held two years. He intended to 
study for the ministry ; but as his health was delicate, his lungs 
being somewhat affected, he relinquished his purpose. In 1800, 



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lie visited England. In 1802, he was appointed usher in the 
Boston Latin School, where lie remained until August, 1*04. 
lie then engaged in business as a bookseller, in Court Street, 
Boston; which he conducted alone until about 1815, when he 
formed a partnership with Robert Lilly, under the firm of Wells 
and Lilly. While in this business, he taught a private classical 
school in Boston. He retired from his partnership with Mr. 
Lilly about the year 1830, and removed to Cambridge ; where 
he opened a classical school for boys, which he continued for 
many years with much success, until the infirmities of age com- 
pelled him to relinquish it. He was highly respected as a man 
of extensive literary acquirements, as well as a good and useful 
citizen of unblemished moral character. He had been for 
many years a member of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences. 

He married, 3 May, 1808, Frances Boott, daughter of Kirk 
Boott, Esq., of Boston. The issue of this marriage was seven 
children, — three sons and four daughters. One of the sons 
deceased. The other children, with their mother, survived him. 
One of the daughters — Frances Boott — is the wife of Rev. 
William Newell, D.D., of Cambridge. 

1800.— William Sawyer died in Wakefield, N.H., 5 
July, 1860, aged 85. He w T as son of Nathaniel and Jerusha 
(Flint) Sawyer, and was born in Westminister, Mass., 2(5 
October, 1774. His parents were both natives of Reading, 
Mass., and removed to Westminster soon after their marriage. 
His father died 2Q July, 17U7. While laboring in the field, he 
suddenly fell, and instantly expired. His mother died 20 Feb- 
ruary, 1821. Young Sawyer was fitted for college at Westford 
Academy, under Amos Crosby (II. C. 178(5). While in col- 
lege, he taught school, in vacation, one winter in that part of 
Chelmsford which is now Lowell, and two winters in his native 
town. He studied law with Henry Mellen, of Dover, N.II. 
(H.C. 1784) ; and, having been admitted to the bar, he, in 
August, 1803, established himself as a lawyer in Wakefield, 
where he passed the remainder of his life. He was quite suc- 
cessful in the practice of his profession. lie was several times 



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elected a representative to the New-Hampshire legislature ; and, 
after the division of the county of Strafford, he was chosen 
president of the Carroll-county bar. He retired from profes- 
sional practice many years ago, having acquired a compe- 
tence ; and devoted himself to agriculture and the improvement 
of the farming interest in his vicinity. He sustained through 
life an unblemished moral character. 

He married, in 1804, Mary Yeaton, of Portsmouth, N.H. 
The issue of this marriage was five children, — three sons and two 
daughters. William, the eldest son, settled as a trader in 
Wakefield. George Yeaton, the second son (Bowd. C. 1826), 
studied law with his father, and settled in practice in Nashua, 
N.H. He became an associate-judge of the Supreme Court of 
New Hampshire. Charles Haven, the third son, settled on 
his father's farm. ' All the sons married. The eldest daugh- 
ter married Dr. Thomas Lindsey, a physician in Lincoln, 
Me. The second daughter, Augusta Mehitabel, married Jo- 
seph Pike, and lived in Brookfield, N.H., a town adjoining 
Wakefield. 

1800. — John Wadsworth died in Hiram, Me., 22 Jan- 
uary, 1860, aged 78. He was son of Hon. Peleg (H.C. 
1769) and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Wadsworth, and was born in 
Plymouth, Mass., 1 September, 1781. His father, who was 
son of Deacon Peleg Wadsworth, was born in Duxbury, Mass., 
6 May, 1748. He was an officer in the revolutionary war. 
He joined the army as captain of a company of minute-men at 
Roxbury, in the beginning of the war ; and, by his skill and 
courage, rose to the rank of brigadier-general. He was chosen 
representative to Congress in 1792, and was successively re- 
elected until 1806, when he declined a further nomination. He 
died in Hiram, 18 November, 1829, aged 81. His mother was 
born in Plymouth, 9 August, 1753. She was sister of Joseph 
Bartlett (H.C. 1782), the eccentric poet and humorist. Mr. 
Wadsworth was fitted for college at Fryeburg Academy. He 
was remarkably comely and graceful : his manners and carriage 
were polished and courtly in the highest degree. He possessed 
superior talents, and ranked very high as a scholar in his class. 



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Towards the close of his collegiate course, hie health failed ; and 
he left in the latter part of his senior year, but received his 
degree with his class, lie soon afterwards made a voyage to 
Liverpool for the benefit of his health, but returned in the same 
vessel in which he went out. lie went to the South as a teacher, 
and spent several years in the southern and middle states. 
He taught in Natchez, Miss. ; was a private teacher in the 
Berrien family in Georgia, and also in that of Governeur 
Morris in New York. He then studied law with Hon. Isaac 
Parker (H.C. 1786), and opened an office in Vassalborough, 
Me., but soon abandoned the profession. While his father was 
a member of Congress, he passed a considerable time at Wash- 
ington, much to the detriment of his business-habits. He 
retired to his father's residence in Hiram ; and, his health being 
in a somewhat precarious state, he did not pursue any regular 
business. 

He married, in 1836 or 1837, Ellen George, of Con- 
cord, N.H., or vicinity, but had no children. His wife sur- 
vives him. 

1802. — James Davenport died in Boylston, Mass., 27 
April, 1860, aged 81. He was son of Matthew and Patience 
(Goodnow) Davenport, and was born in Sterling, Mass. (where 
his parents resided a few months) , 24 January, 1779. His name, 
originally, was Matthew Davenport, which he changed about 
1835, taking the name of James for a son who died in St. Louis 
in 1833, and because James was an ancient family name, and the 
name of the first Davenport who came from England to New 
Haven, and settled in 1656 on the present Davenport place, — 
situated partly in Boylston and partly in West Boylston, and 
a considerable part of which has continued in the family 
ever since. Mr. Davenport was fitted for college at Leicester 
Academy. After leaving college, he studied law two years with 
Hon. Edward Bangs, of Worcester (H.C. 1777), and one 
year with Hon. Tristram Burgess, of Providence, R.I. (B.U. 
1796). Having been admitted to the bar, he settled in Cum- 
berland, R.L, where he practised his profession from March, 
1804, to April, 1815 ; when he removed to his homestead in 



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Boylston ; where he resided during the remainder of his life, 
being occupied in the business of farming, although he con- 
tinued to be a member of the bar and a justice of the peace. 
He was universally respected, and was frequently consulted, as 
well as called upon to act, as a trial -justice. Three or four years 
before his death, his mental faculties became impaired, and at 
times his once-strong mind seemed but a mere wreck of what it 
had been. It was thought that the deaths of several of his 
children, and the loss of his property, with other trials, seriously 
affected his mind. He had been failing in health the whole of 
the last year, in consequence of a cancer on his lip ; but the im- 
mediate cause of his death was influenza, which induced inflam- 
mation of the lungs. Three days before his last, one side 
became paralyzed, which deprived him of the power of speech ; 
but previously he appeared conscious of .his near dissolution, and 
spoke of his faith and trust in God. 

He married, 27 May, 1804, Sallie Andrews, daughter of 
Deacon Daniel Andrews, of Boylston, a most excellent man, 
and father of an equally excellent family. The issue of this 
marriage was twelve children, — six sons and six daughters ; of 
whom six survived him, — four sons and two daughters. One 
son died at ten years of age, and one daughter at the age of 
seven months. All the others lived to maturity. Their mother 
survived her husband, retaining much of her youthful vigor. 

1803. — Rev. David Tenney Kimball died in Ipswich, 
Mass., 3 February, 1860, aged 77. He was son of Lieut. 
Daniel and Elizabeth (Tenney) Kimball, and was born in Brad- 
ford, Mass., 23 November, 1782. When a boy, he exhibited 
a great passion for learning ; but so industrious was he in the 
business of agriculture, that his father used to say that he should 
not know how to spare him, and send him to college, if he had 
health to pursue the labors of the field. He began the study of 
Virgil, in the district school, under the instruction of Moses 
Dow, of Atkinson, N.H., afterwards Rev. Moses Dow, of Bev- 
erly, Mass. (D.C. 1796). He became a student, 3 May, 1798, 
in Atkinson Academy, under Hon. John Vose (D.C. 1795) 
as preceptor. That thorough scholar, judicious teacher, and 

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upright man always spoke of him as one of the most exem- 
plary and amiable young men, and one of the beat scholars 
under his instruction; and, when he was requested to name a 

Fourth-of-July speaker from anioil"- his students, lie .-elected 
young Kimball for the purpose, who delivered an oration which 
was well received. Leaving the academy 14 August, 17!>!». 
he entered college. He sustained a very respectable standing in 
his class, attended diligently to every branch of study, but ex- 
celled in belles-lettres, almost invariably receiving distinguished 
marks of approbation on his themes from that accomplished 
scholar and accurate writer, Dr. Eliphalet Pearson. Imme- 
diately after leaving college, he was appointed instructor in 
Phillips Academy, Andover, where he remained one year. He 
then began his theological studies with Rev. Jonathan French, 
of Andover (H.C. 1771) ; having, as fellow-students, Samuel 
Walker (D.C. 1802), afterwards Rev. Mr. Walker, of Danvers, 
Mass.; Samuel Gile (D.C. 1804), afterwards Rev. Dr. Gile, 
of Milton; Samuel Greele (H.C. 1802), now Deacon Greele, 
of Boston ; and John Farrar (PLC. 1803), his classmate, after- 
wards professor of mathematics in Harvard College. His first 
pulpit-performances on a Sunday were 17 March, 1805. He 
preached for the first time in Ipswich, 22 September, 1805. 
From that time until his ordination, with the exception of thir- 
teen Sundays, he supplied the pulpit in Ipswich. On the 17th 
of June, 1806, the church unanimously invited him to become 
their pastor, and the parish concurred with only one dissenting 
vote. He was ordained 8 October, 1806 ; and there he labored, 
with great diligence and faithfulness, for nearly forty years be- 
fore he was relieved from a portion of his duties by the assist- 
ance of a colleague. For ten or twelve years, he instructed the 
children of his society at the meeting-house, and at his own 
dwelling-house, in the Assembly's Catechism. The number of 
children present varied from 120 to 200. When the Sunday- 
school was established, 20 June, 1818, with 145 scholars, he 
acted as superintendent, and took part in its immediate instruc- 
tion. Few men took a deeper interest in the intellectual, moral, 
and religious welfare of the community than he. In December, 



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1818, he instructed the young ladies of his society, at his house, 
in Wilbur's Catechism, and continued it a long time ; and also, 
during the same time, he instructed the young of both sexes in 
sacred history. He preached more than a hundred sermons 
exclusively to the young. Fourteen evenings in one winter 
were occupied in a course of fourteen lectures to young men, on 
the text, " Is the young man Absalom safe ? " in which he 
aimed, as far as possible, to bring before them those principles 
and practices which tend to the moral ruin of the young. He 
was one of the original signers of the Massachusetts Society 
for the Suppression of Intemperance, constituted in May, 1813. 
He was also secretary of the Education Society of Essex County 
and Essex North, from the establishment of the former, in 
1816, to the time of his death ; and, what is remarkable, never 
failed, it is said, in an appointment, and never went to the an- 
nual meeting unprepared with a report carefully made out. He 
was a man of great modesty and humility, a faithful servant in 
his Master's vineyard, and one of the worthiest members of the 
community. For many years he kept a journal, in which were 
recorded interesting incidents of his life. In this journal, under 
date of 12 October, 1806, is a prayer which he offered the 
Sunday after his ordination, of which the following is a part: 
" Teach me how to pray for this people. May they always 
be near my heart, especially when I address the throne of 
grace ! While I have breath to pray, may I not cease making 
mention of them in my prayers ! " This petition was literally 
answered ; for the last audible prayer he uttered was " for my 
people." 

He married, 20 October, 1807, Dolly Varnum Coburn, 
daughter of Capt. Peter and Mrs. Elizabeth Coburn, of Dra- 
cut, Mass., and grand-daughter of Deacon David Poor, of 
Andover. This union was replete Avith happiness. They had 
seven children, — five sons and two daughters; of whom two 
sons died before their father. The other children, with their 
mother, are living. 

He never lost his interest in the languages. He read almost 
daily a portion of the Old Testament in Hebrew, and of the 



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New Testament in Greek. He enjoyed greatly a good recita- 
tion in Latin, and also in mathematics. He wrote in his diary, 
18 November, 1859, "In the afternoon, I attended the exami- 
nation of the Ipswich High School. I took the direction of a 
Latin class, and made a short address to the school, in which I 
spoke of the great interest I felt in this and all our schools, and 
mentioned the fact, that it is my constant practice, every even- 
ing, to seek the greatest blessing from the highest source on all 
the young people in this town. I then spoke of the immense 
amount of moral power concentrating in the scholars belonging 
to this school, and urged them to do all in their power for the 
general good. 

"November 23. This is my birthday. lam now seventy- 
seven years old. My day of probation is almost ended. The 
question which I have often put to others is a solemn one to 
me, — Are you ready for its close? I surely ought to have my 
lamp trimmed and burning. 

" December 1 1 . My wife having observed that few of those 
who have died in our society during the time of my ministry, 
according to the record, were as old as we are, my thoughts, 
after retiring to bed, ran very much on our nearness to our 
eternal home ; and when I awoke in the morning, as well as 
a number of times during the night, I found myself praying 
that an abundant entrance might be administered to her, and 
to us both, into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and 
Saviour." 

His mind and body were so vigorous, that he was likely, in 
the estimation of his family and friends, to live to a very ad- 
vanced age. Though his call was sudden, and his sufferings, 
owing to his disease (lung fever, attacking both his lungs), ex- 
treme, not a murmur escaped his lips. It was a privilege never 
to be forgotten, to stand by his bedside, and witness his transi- 
tion from earth to heaven. At the moment of his soul's depart- 
ure from the body, there came to his lips a smile of ineffable 
beauty. 

His attachments were very strong. He enjoyed Commence- 
ment at Cambridge exceedingly. These seasons of re-union 



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with his beloved classmates and very many literary friends gave 
him heartfelt pleasure ; although, as he expressed himself not 
long before his death, " it was sad to miss so many who have 
gone to their graves, with whom I have trodden the paths of 
literature in company." 

1803. — Rev. Samuel Willard died in Deerfield, Mass., 
8 October, 1859, aged 83. He was son of William and Cathe- 
rine (Wilder) Willard, and was born in Petersham, Mass., 18 
April, 1776. He was fitted for college principally by Rev. 
Nathaniel Thayer, D.D., of Lancaster, Mass. (H.C. 1789). 
At the close of his collegiate studies, he determined upon the 
gospel-ministry as his future vocation ; but, immediately after 
graduating, he went to Exeter as assistant-preceptor in the 
academy at that place, where he continued until August, 1804, 
and employed most of his leisure time in the studies of his 
chosen profession, under Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D., of Hamp- 
ton, N.H. (D.C. 1792), afterwards president of Bowdoin 
College. His continuance with Mr. Appleton was of short 
duration ; for early in October, the same year, he was ap- 
pointed tutor in Bowdoin College ; which appointment he 
accepted. There, too, he employed his leisure time in prepara- 
tions for the ministry, under the instruction of Rev. Joseph 
McKeen, D.D. (D.C. 1774), president of the college. In 
September, 1805, he returned to Cambridge to finish the course 
of theological study he had begun under Dr. Appleton, and 
continued under Dr. McKeen. After a few weeks, he was 
licensed by the Cambridge Association to preach. He preached 
his first sermon in Deerfield, 15 March, 1807. In June, he 
received an invitation to settle there, and accepted it. The 12th 
of August was the day first appointed for his ordination ; and 
the council assembled, composed principally of the Calvinistic 
persuasion. It was about this time that the first indications 
were made apparent that this denomination were preparing to 
separate themselves from the Arminian and liberal churches. 
The council, after a two-days' session and a rigid examination 
of the candidate, refused to ordain him ; not deeming the prin- 
ciples he avowed to come up to their standard of faith. Another 



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council was called, and he was ordained 23 September, 1807. 
From that time, he became a pioneer in the cause of liberal 
Christianity. He labored faithfully and acceptably among the 
people who had called him to be their spiritual guide. lie early 
took a deep interest in public schools, and wrote a series of 
schoolbooks, which were long and successfully used. He was 
a scientific musician ; and was the author of the " Deerfield Col- 
lection of Sacred Music," which deservedly held a high rank. 
" It aimed to secure, by the simplest and most practicable means, 
an invariable coincidence between the poetic and the musical 
emphases, and thus to combine the two powers for the high pur- 
pose of religious impression." Many of the hymns in his col- 
lection were of his own composition ; and, after its publication, 
he committed to memory every hymn in the volume. In 1819, 
his sight became so dim that he could neither read nor write ; 
and then his devoted and affectionate wife cheerfully supplied all 
his needs, as far as human help could do it, aided by their chil- 
dren and friends. In September, 1829, he resigned his pastoral 
charge, but continued to officiate to his people occasionally 
until near the close of his life. His loss of sight induced him 
to make attempts to strengthen his memory, which he did to a 
wonderful degree ; and he accordingly accustomed himself to 
commit to memory daily something of value. His wife would 
read passages over and over, until he attained them ; and, in 
his hours of solitude, he would keep repeating them. The 
amount thus committed became prodigious. Many books of 
the New Testament, and the Psalms and Prophets of the Old, 
he could repeat with an accuracy which was unerring. The 
severe affliction of blindness he submitted to with meek submis- 
sion to the will of the Sovereign Disposer. For forty years, he 
was not able to look upon the beauties of the earth, or the glo- 
ries of heaven. He had not seen the face of his beloved wife, 
of his virtuous children, or his troops of friends ; yet not a 
word of complaint, not a whisper of uneasiness, nor a tear of 
sorrow. He was a modest but large benefactor to society, and 
his parish loved and respected him without cessation. If there 
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was his ; and many loved to sit, and sun themselves in the light 
that was ever pouring from his rich and healthy mind. He was 
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; 
and, in 182(3, the honorary degree of doctor of divinity was 
conferred upon him by Harvard College. 

He married, 30 May, 1808, Susan Barker, daughter of Dr. 
Joshua Barker, of Hingham, Mass. (H.C. 1772)7 They had 
three children, — two daughters and one son, — who survive 
him. The son inherited his father's sad infirmity of blindness. 
His wife died 24 August, 1857, aged 74 years. 

1804. — Dr. John Maitland Brewer died in Beverly, 
N.J., 5 November, 1859, aged 78. He was son of David and 
Comfort (Wheeler) Brewer, and was born in Framingham, 
Mass., 10 April, 1781. His name, originally, was John Brew- 
er, but many years since he took the intermediate name of 
Maitland. He was fitted for college at Framingham Academy. 
He entered Brown University in 1800, where he remained two 
years ; when he left, and entered the junior class at Harvard 
College, 14 October, 1802. Immediately after graduating, he 
was appointed perceptor of the same academy in which he had 
pursued his preparatory studies for college, where he continued 
two years. He then studied divinity with his pastor, Rev. 
David Kellogg, D.D. (D.C. 1775), of Framingham. After 
preaching a short time to good acceptance, he received a call to 
take the pastoral charge of the church in Dover, Mass., but de- 
clined the invitation on account of the inadequacy of the salary 
offered. He soon afterwards relinquished preaching, and took 
charge of an academy in New Bedford, Mass., where he re- 
mained several years. He then removed to Germantown, Penn., 
where he continued the occupation of teaching with much suc- 
cess as an instructor, and with pecuniary profit to himself. He 
afterwards went to Philadelphia, where he studied medicine. 
In 1837, he received the degree of M.D. from the University of 
Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and practised medicine in that 
city until 1850 ; when, having become wealthy, he removed to 
Beverly, N.J., where he owned real estate to a considerable 
amount, and where he built several houses, one of which he 



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occupied himself, and there passed the remainder of his days. He 
was an expert financier, and the latter years of his life were de- 
voted almost exclusively t<> " increasing his store," in which he 
took great satisfaction, and was highly successful. He was 
never married. 

1808. — Charles Flanders died in Plainfield, N.H., 15 
April, 1860, aged 72. He was son of Nehemiah and Sarah 
(French) Flanders, and was born in Newburyport, Mass., 11 
February, 1788. He was fitted for college by Michael Walsh, 
of Newburyport. After leaving college, having chosen law for 
a profession, he pursued his studies partly under the instruc- 
tion of Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (D.C. 1804), and partly with 
Little and Banister, of Newburyport (D.C. 1797). Having 
been admitted to the bar, he established himself in the practice 
of his profession in Plainfield. Possessing a clear, discerning, 
and logical mind, by untiring industry and devoted attention to 
the interests of his clients, he soon rose to distinction, and 
acquired an extensive and lucrative practice. For nearly fifty 
years, he was distinguished as an honored member of the New- 
Hampshire bar, an able lawyer, a safe counsellor, and an honest 
man. Nor were his talents and usefulness without appreciation 
by the people among whom he so long resided. He several 
times represented Plainfield in the New-Hampshire legislature : 
not so often as he would have done, had his political views been 
different. He was of the old Federal National-Republican 
school, to which he adhered consistently and strenuously. He 
was, at one time, solicitor for Sullivan county. In 1847, the 
honorary degree of master of arts was conferred upon him by 
Dartmouth College. About the year 1848, he removed to 
Manchester, N.H., where he resided several years; but re- 
turned to Plainfield some four or five years before his death. 
He was a kind husband and father, a worthy and respected 
citizen ; fulfilling all the relations of life with conscientious and 
scrupulous integrity and fidelity. 

He married, 20 August, 1815, Lucretia Kingsbury, of Keene, 
N.H. The issue of this marriage was four sons and one daugh- 
ter, — Charles, George M., William M., Henry, and Ellen. 



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Charles was a merchant in New York, and died a few years 
since. George M. , a lawyer, and William M., a merchant, 
both resided in Boston. Henry became a distinguished lawyer 
and writer in Philadelphia. He is the author of " Lives and Times 
of the Chief- Justices of the United States," in two parts : 
the first containing the lives of John Jay and John Rutledge, 
published in 1855 ; and the other those of William Cushing 
Oliver, Oliver Ellsworth, and John Marshall, in 1858. The 
work is written in a beautiful style, the biographies being inter- 
spersed with many stirring incidents of the times, rendering it 
an exceedingly fascinating book. He has also written two other 
works, which are esteemed high authority by the legal profession, 
— "A Treatise on Maritime Law," published in 1853 ; and "A 
Treatise on the Law of Shipping," published in 1858. Ellen 
became the wife of Dr. Norman Curtis Stevens, a much-esteemed 
physician in Boston. 

1808. — Rev. Ralph Sanger died in Cambridge, Mass., 
6 May, 18GD, aged 73. He was the fourth son of Rev. Zede- 
kiah (H.C. 1771) and Irene (Freeman) Sanger, and was born 
in Duxbury, Mass., 22 June, 1786. His father, who was son 
of Richard and Deborah (Rider) Sanger, was born in Sherborn, 
Mass., 4 October, 1748; was ordained at Duxbury, Mass., 
3 July, 1776 ; dismissed, at his own request, 10 April, 1786 ; 
was installed at Bridgewater as colleague with Rev. John 
Shaw (H.C. 1729), 17 December, 1788. Mr. Shaw died 29 
April, 1791, aged 84; and, from that time, Mr. Sanger dis- 
charged the laborious duties of pastor alone until his death, 
which took place 17 November, 1820, at the age of 72. In 
addition to his pastoral duties, he instructed a classical school. 
He was highly esteemed for genius and learning, reverenced as 
a minister, and sought for as a counsellor. He was a member 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; and, in 1807, 
the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon 
him by Brown University. The subject of this notice was fitted 
for college by his father, and Graduated with the hio-hest honors 
of his class. After leaving college, he studied divinity with his 
father. In 1811, he was appointed tutor at Cambridge, where 

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he remained one year. He was ordained pastor of the church 
in Dover, Mass., 16 September, 1812, as successor of Rev. 
Benjamin Caryl (H.C. L761), who died 13 November, 1811, at 
the age of 7 ( J years. Here he labored with great fidelity, and 
in perfect harmony with the people of his charge, until his death, 
a period of forty-seven years and seven months. He was sole 
pastor until about a year before his decease, when the Itev. 
Edward G. Barker was ordained as colleague with him. Mr. 
Caryl was ordained 10 November, 1762 ; and it is worthy of 
note that the pastorates of these two clergymen comprised, with 
an interval of only ten months, a period of ninety-seven years 
and six months. About four years before his death, his house 
was set on fire by an incendiary, and destroyed. He soon after- 
wards removed to Cambridge, to the house of his son-in-law, 
Mr. William W. Gannett, where he resided during the remain- 
der of his life, although he continued his pastoral labors over 
his society in Dover, as before. He was elected a representative 
in the state legislature from Dover in 1837, 1845, 1847, 1851, 
and 1854. In 1858, the honorary degree of doctor of divinity 
was conferred upon him by Harvard College. 

Dr. Sanger was extensively known, and universally respected 
for his mild, amiable disposition, and spotless integrity. As a 
Christian minister, his wisdom, prudence, fidelity, and useful- 
ness won for him a name that will be sacredly cherished in the 
church, and in many homes where his influence was felt and his 
labors were known. For the promotion of agriculture, of tem- 
perance, and of social elevation and improvement in every way, 
his labors were modestly yet earnestly employed. He was a 
man of scholarly and liberal attainments, of a frank and cheerful 
temperament, distinguished for his sterling virtues and his mod- 
est worth. In his death, a worthy man and a sincere Christian 
has gone to his rest. 

He married, in July, 1817, Charlotte Kingman, of East 
Bridgewater, who was born 5 July, 1792. The issue of this 
marriage was six children, — four sons and two daughters. 

1808. — Hon. Samuel Emerson Smith died in Wiscasset, 
Me., 3 March, 1860, aged 71. His death was very sudden. I le 



1859-60.] OF HAEVARD -COLLEGE. 307 

retired, about eleven o'clock, in his usual health, — having just 
completed the solution of a difficult mathematical problem upon 
which he had been engaged during the evening, — and soon after- 
wards breathed his last. He was the seventh child and third 
son of Manasseh (H.C. 1773) and Hannah (Emerson) Smith, 
and was born in Hollis, N.H., 12 March, 1788. His parents 
removed to Wiscasset the year of his birth. His father, who 
was the son of Abijah Smith, was born in Leominster, Mass., 
25 December, 1749. He was a lawyer in Leominster, in Hollis- 
ton, and in Wiscasset; and was clerk of the Supreme Court. He 
died 21 May, 1823, aged 73. The subject of this notice was 
fitted for college, partly at Wiscasset, and partly at Groton 
(Mass.) Academy. He attained to a distinguished rank in his 
class, and graduated with high honors. After leaving college, 
he studied law, for a time, with Hon. Samuel Dana, of Groton ; 
aftenvards with his brothers Manasseh Smith (H.C. 1800), of 
Warren, Me., and Joseph Emerson Smith (H.C. 1804), of Bos- 
ton. He was admited to the bar in Boston, 25 February, 1812, 
and established himself in the practice of his profession in Wis- 
casset. In 1819, he was elected to represent Wiscasset in the 
general court in Boston, and was elected to the legislature of 
Maine in 1820, after the separation of that state from Masssachu- 
setts. He was appointed chief-justice of the Court of Common 
Pleas in 1821, and a justice of the state Court of Common Pleas 
in 1822 ; which situation he retained until 1830, when he was 
elected governor of Maine. He was re-elected governor for the 
political years 1831—32 and 1832—33, and was re-appointed 
justice of the Court of Common Pleas early in 1835 ; which office 
he resigned in 1837. In October, 1837, he was appointed one 
of the commissioners to revise the public laws of Maine. On 
his election to the gubernatorial chair, he removed to Augusta, 
where he resided until July, 1836, when he returned to Wis- 
casset. He was unostentatious in his intercourse with his fellow- 
citizens, honest in all his dealings, exemplary in his habits of 
life, beloved and respected by all who knew him. 

He married, 12 September, 1832, Louisa Sophia, daughter 
of Hon. Henry Weld Fuller (D.C. 1801), of Augusta; and 



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had five children, — nil sons. His wife and children survived 
him. 

1810. — Dr. Joseph Eaton died at Fort Hamilton, N.Y., 
17 March, 1860, aged 75. He was son of Edmund and Sally 
(Brown) Eaton, and was born in Reading, Mass., 24 July, 
1784. His mother was a descendant of Nicholas Brown, one of 
the first settlers of Reading. She was also a relation of Gen. 
Benjamin Brown, of Reading, who was a colonel in the Revolu- 
tion, and a general in the militia. The subject of this notice was 
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, in Andover, Mass. lie 
was much assisted, in acquiring his education, by his relative, 
Rev. Oliver Brown (H.C. 1804), of Charlestown, Mass., then 
chaplain of the state-prison. After leaving college, he chose the 
medical profession ; and, having pursued his studies for some 
time, he entered the army of the United States, 14 April, 1812, 
as surgeon's-mate. This position he resigned, 12 December, 
1813. He was appointed hospital-surgeon's mate, 15 April, 
1814; and, having , completed his medical studies, he received 
his degree of M.D. that year. He was commissioned as assist- 
ant-surgeon with the rank of captain, 1 June, 1821, which post 
he retained during the remainder of his life ; and, at his death, he 
was the senior surgeon in the service. He was an intelligent 
gentleman, and a faithful public servant. He married Sally 
Smith, of Salem, Mass. The issue of this marriage was six 
children, — one son and five daughters. The son, whose name 
is Joseph, entered the army ; and, during the Mexican Avar, 
was aide to Gen. Taylor. He had the reputation of being a brave 
officer. The daughters have resided in the vicinity of Fort 
Hamilton. Their mother died about nineteen years since. 

1810. — Isaac Redington Howe died in Haverhill, Mass., 
15 January, 1860, aged 67. He was son of David and Eliza- 
beth (Redington) Howe, and was born in Haverhill, 13 March, 
1791/ He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, An- 
dover. After graduating, he began the study of law, under the 
instruction of Hon. George Bliss, of Springfield, Mass. (Y.C. 
1784) ; and completed his studies with Hon. William Prescott, 
of Boston (H.C. 1783). After his admission to the bar, he 



1859-60.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 309 

opened an office in his native town, where he resided during the 
remainder of his life. He was, for many years, active in his 
profession, in which he acquired a highly respectable rank ; but 
he gave up his business some sixteen years before his death, 
alleging, as it is said, that he did not regard it as an honest pro- 
fession. In this, probably, his peace principles, which were well 
known, actuated him. He wrote much for the press, and was 
at one time associated in conducting the " Haverhill Gazette." 
He was a great advocate of all that related to mechanics and the 
arts ; and, in these matters, his mind was far in advance of 
the age. He was never selfish or partisan in his character. He 
aimed at truth and independence, and never committed his con- 
duct or opinions to the dictation of party. He was a gentleman 
of great kindness and gentleness of disposition. For several 
years before his death, he was in ill health, and was but little 
known away from his own fireside, being but seldom abroad. 
Possessed of unusual amiability, he had no enemies. He was 
particularly upright and honorable in all his business transactions, 
and left a character above reproach. 

Mr. Howe married, 16 June, 1816, Sarah, daughter of Dr. 
Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill (H.C. 1766), and sister 
of Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, of Salem (H.C. 1802). They 
had eight children, — four sons and four daughters, — of whom 
three sons and one daughter, with their mother, survived their 
father. The children are as follows : 1. Nathaniel Salton- 
stall, born 24 April, 1817 (Y.C. 1835) ; lawyer in Haver- 
hill, and judge of probate ; has been member of the state 
senate. 2. Mary Cooke, born 25 March, 1819 ; married, 30 
September, 1851, James H. Carleton, a merchant in Haverhill. 
3. Caroline Matilda, born 27 September, 1821 ; died 9 August, 
1844. 4. Ann Elizabeth, born 14 November, 1823 ; died 
7 July, 1845. 5. William Garland, bom 28 June; died 26 
August, 1826. 6. Frances Garland, born 8 October, 1827 ; 
died 5 September, 1828. 7. William Garland, born 1 August, 
1829 ; broker in Boston. 8. Francil Saltonstall, born 8 No- 
vember, 1831 (H.C. 1852) ; lawyer in Chicago. 

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310 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1859-60. 

5 April, I860, aged 69. lie was the youngesl of twelve chil- 
dren — five sons and seven daughters — of Isaac and Hannah 
(.Mason) Peirce; and was born in Waltham, Mass., 15 August, 
17!M). He began his preparatory studies for college at Fra- 
mingham Academy, and completed them under the instruction of 
Rev. Charles Stearns, D.D. (H.C. 1773), of Lincoln, Mass. 
While in college, he maintained the reputation of a pure, up- 
right young man ; a faithful and indefatigable student ; an accu- 
rate, though not a brilliant, scholar. During his sophomore 
year, in the winter of 1807—8, he began his labors as a school- 
teacher in the village of West Newton, — in the same town, and 
not far from the very spot, where he closed his life, upwards of 
fifty-three years afterwards. Immediately after leaving college, 
he accepted an invitation to take charge of a private school in 
Nantucket. Here he taught, two years, with great fidelity and 
success. During that time, he determined to study for the min- 
istry ; and, in 1812, he returned to Cambridge to pursue his 
theological studies. After three years spent there, he was per- 
suaded to return to Nantucket, and resume his work as a teacher, 
where he remained three years. In 1818, he left, and began 
preaching. He was ordained pastor of a church in North Read- 
ing, Mass., 18 May, 1819. Here he remained a most faithful 
and discreet preacher of the gospel for eight years ; but, having 
come to the conclusion that he was not called to preach so much 
as to teach, he resigned his pastoral charge, 19 May, 1827, and 
returned to school-keeping, as that which should thenceforth be 
the business of his life. In company with a relative, Mr. 
Simeon Putnam (H.C. 1811), he took charge of a school in 
North Andover, Mass. Here he remained four years ; when 
at the earnest solicitation of his former friends, in 1831, he re- 
turned to Nantucket. His return was most cordially welcomed ; 
and he immediately found himself at the head of a large and 
lucrative school. This school he continued to teach six years, 
during which time he was occasionally blessed with able assist- 
ants ; and among them was Miss Maria Mitchell, who had been 
his pupil, and who has since obtained a world-wide fame as an 
astronomer. In 1837, he relinquished his private school, and 



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became the principal of Nantucket High School. This school 
he kept two years. In 1839, when the first normal-school on 
this continent was established at Lexington, Mass., he was, at 
the earnest solicitation of the late Horace Mann, induced to take 
charge of it; and entered upon his labors, 3 July, 1839. He 
began with only three scholars. The contrast between the full 
and flourishing establishment he had just left at Nantucket, and 
the " beggarly account of empty boxes " which was daily before 
him for the first three months, was very disheartening. How- 
ever, he had put his hand to the plough, and of course the fur- 
row must be driven through, ay, and the whole field be turned 
over, before he would relinquish his effort. He set about his 
work as one determined to " do with his might what his hand 
found to do." He soon made his three pupils conscious that 
there was more to be known about even the primary branches of 
education than they had dreamed ; and better methods of teach- 
ing reading, spelling, grammar, and geography, than were 
practised in the schools. Their reports of the searching thor- 
oughness and other excellent peculiarities of the normal-teacher 
attracted others to him. The number of his pupils steadily 
increased from term to term, until, at the expiration of his 
first three years' service, there were forty-two ; at which time 
he was obliged to resign in consequence of failing health, and he 
returned to Nantucket : but, at the end of two years, he was so 
far recruited as to be able to resume the charge of the school, to 
which he was unanimously elected in 1844 ; it having been re- 
moved to West Newton. He continued in charge of the school 
until 1849, when he was again compelled to resign on account 
of his health. He retired with the highest recommendation of 
the Board of Education and others for his fidelity and success. 

A purse containing five hundred dollars was contributed by 
his pupils and other friends, and was presented to him, to enable 
him to go to Europe as a delegate to the Peace Congress, then 
to be held shortly in Paris. This was almost the only recreation 
he had allowed himself to take after leaving college in 1810. 
He spent several months in travelling in England and on the 
Continent. Soon after his return, he became an associate with 



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Mr. Nathaniel T. Allen, a young and ardenl successful teacher, 
in the management of an academy in West Newton. Here lie 
labored with all the zeal of his younger days, until his health 
again compelled him to retire, although he nominally remained 

an associate until his death. He passed away calmly and 
serenely, with the love and respect of all who knew him. 

He married, about the year 1816, Harriet Coffin, of Nan- 
tucket, but had no children. 

1811. — Clarke Gayton Pickm an died in Boston, 11 May, 
1860, aged 68. He was the second son of Col. Benjamin 
(H.C. 1784) and Anstis (Derby) Pickman, and was born in 
Salem, Mass., 22 November, 1791. His father was born in 
Salem, 30 September, 1763. He was a gentleman of fortune; 
was a member of both branches of the state legislature and of 
the executive-council ; a delegate in 1820 to the convention 
for revising the constitution of Massachusetts ; and a representa- 
tive in Congress, from Essex South District, from 1809 to 1811. 
He died 11 August, 1843, aged 79. His mother was a daugh- 
ter of Elias Hasket Derby, an eminent and wealthy merchant 
of Salem. He was fitted for college by Jacob Newman Knapp 
(H.C. 1802), who for several years kept a classical school in 
Salem. He was taken ill in his sophomore year, and did not 
again reside in college ; but received a degree with his class. 
He then turned his attention to theological studies, intending to 
take orders in the Episcopal church, but not under the direction 
of any clergyman. He was ordained a deacon, and read the 
serviee a few times ; but did not afterwards pursue the profes- 
sion. He was long subject to undue nervous excitement, which 
occasionally resulted in temporary alienation of mind to such a 
degree, that it was necessary, more than once, to place him in an 
asylum for the insane, for short periods. He possessed a benev- 
olent disposition, which he manifested by educating several 
meritorious children who were left orphans in straitened cir- 
cumstances. He delivered an address before the East-Cam- 
bridge Temperance Society, 22 December, 1835, and another 
before the Ladies' Benevolent Society at East Cambridge, 18 
December, 1836 ; both of which were published. In the fol- 



1859-60.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 313 

lowing extract from the latter, he evidently alludes to him- 
self:— 

" It has pleased God to create men with different degrees 
of talent ; and, of course, their pursuits must be attended with 
different degrees of success. In the complicated concerns of 
human life, it must also happen, that to equal talent there can- 
not, at all times, be given equal opportunities of exertion. 
Hence it is, that, while one man is able to succeed in his object 
of desire, another is kept back, sometimes by weakness, some- 
times by his crimes, often by a course of events which he cannot 
control, and for the influences of which no cause can be assigned 
but the good pleasure of our Creator." 

For many years, he had no permanent place of abode. He 
resided in Charlestown, East Cambridge, Boston, and other 
places in this vicinity. He was never married. 

1814. — Benjamin Apthorp Gould died in Boston, 24 
October, 1859, aged 72. He was son of Capt. Benjamin 
and Grizzel (Apthorp) Gould, and was born in Lancaster, 
Mass., 15 June, 1787; but removed, when quite young, with 
his father's family, to Newburyport, Mass., where most of his 
youthful days were passed. He was fitted for college at Dummcr 
Academy in Newbury, Mass. While in college, he attained 
a high rank in scholarship, and was particularly distinguished 
for his attainments in the Latin and Greek classics. In April 
of his senior year, an offer was made to him to take charge of 
the public Latin School in Boston ; which had become greatly 
reduced, both in regard to the number of its scholars, and the 
want of a proper discipline. Whereupon he made application 
to the government for leave of absence for the remainder of his 
collegiate course ; which, in consideration of his diligence as a 
student, his exemplary deportment, and the urgency of the 
Boston school-committee to obtain his valuable services, was 
granted, with the further privilege, that he should receive his 
degree with his class at the next Commencement. In the month 
of May following, he began his labors as principal of the school ; 
and the highest anticipations of his friends were realized. The 
institution, under his vigorous and unwearied exertions, soon 

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rose to a degree of prosperity which it had never before at- 
tained, lie continued to hold the office of principal, with undi- 
minished popularity and success, for fourteen years. In 1828, 
his health having become somewhat impaired by his long and 
arduous labors, he resigned his situation, and entered upon mer- 
cantile business, in which he continued the remainder of his life. 
He became a large ship-owner, and was extensively engaged in 
the Calcutta trade, which he pursued with good judgment and 
with much success ; but he always retained an interest for the 
school of which he was so long the head. When the Latin- 
School Association was formed, he was unanimously elected its 
president ; a post which he held, by successive re-elections, until 
his death. He was a member of the Boston common-council 
in 1834, 1835, 1836, and 1837, and was for several years one 
of the school-committee. He was a man of extensive literary 
attainments, and was a member of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences. He was greatly beloved by his numerous 
pupils, who ever retained an affectionate regard for their faithful 
instructor. His moral character was without a blemish. 

He married, 2 December, 1823, Lucretia Dana Goddard, 
daughter of Nathaniel Goddard, Esq., of Boston, — a most 
amiable and accomplished lady, — who survives him. They had 
four children, — two sons and two daughters, — all of whom are 
living. The elder son, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, graduated at 
Harvard College in 1844, and is the well-known astronomer. 

1814. — Thomas Walley Phillips, of Boston, died at 
his summer residence in Nahant, Mass., 8 September, 1859, 
aged 62. He was the eldest son of Hon. John (H.C. 1788) 
and Sally (Walley) Phillips, and was born in Boston, 16 Janu- 
ary, 1797. His father was born in Boston, 2G November, 
1770, was an eminent lawyer, was judge of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas in Suffolk county, was for many years president of 
the state senate, and was the first mayor of Boston. He died 
29 May, 1823, aged 52. His mother was the daughter of 
Thomas and Sarah Walley ; was born 25 March, 1772 ; and died 
4 November, 1845, aged 73. His brothers and sisters, all of 
whom survive him, are Sarah Hurd, wife of Professor Alonzo 



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Gray, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ; Margaret, wife of Dr. Edward 
Reynolds, of Boston ; Miriam, wife of Rev. George Washing- 
ton Blagden, of Boston ; Rev. John Charles Phillips (H.C. 
1826), of Methuen, Mass.; George William Phillips (H.C. 
1829) ; Wendell Phillips (H.C. 1831) ; and Grenville Tudor 
Phillips (H.C. 1836), — the last three of Boston. He was sent 
in early boyhood to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., 
which was founded by one of his relatives, and was there fitted 
for college. After graduating, he read law with Hon. Lemuel 
Shaw (H.C. 1800), and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1817. For about fourteen years, he practised law with much 
success in Boston, until he succeeded the late Joseph H. Pierce 
as clerk of the Municipal Court ; the arduous duties of which 
office he filled with great ability, and with perfect acceptance to 
the public, until his decease. Although of a retiring disposition, 
he was at various times called from his much-loved, quiet life at 
home, to take part in other official duties. In 1827, he was an 
influential member of the common-council, under the mayoralty 
of the elder Quincy ; and, in 1829, he performed the duties of 
school-committe man for the ward in which he resided. In 1834 
and 1837, he served the city as a representative in the legisla- 
ture. But the most important position which he occupied was 
that of clerk of the Municipal Court ; which office he held under 
the appointment of Judge Peter Oxenb ridge Thacher (H.C. 
1796), in 1830, and which, in its various changes, he retained 
by successive appointments and elections. For many years, he 
was a worthy and conscientious member of the Masonic frater- 
nity ; having received the degrees in Mount- Lebanon Lodge, of 
Boston, in July, 1821. The next year, he became a member 
of St. Andrew's Lodge, of Boston, — one of the most ancient 
and respectable in the country, — in which he for many years 
held the office of treasurer ; and was one of the members'-com- 
mittee, dispensing charity with an open hand and liberal heart. 
In all the relations of life, he was a most worthy man ; and 
by his genuine kindliness of heart, and amiability of character, 
made warm friends of all with whom he associated. 

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Samuel Dunn, of Boston. Two children of this marriage 
survived him, — John, an engineer of promise, at one time 
employed in the construction of railways in Chile; and Samuel 
Dunn (II. C. 1861), who died in the service of the Educational 
Commission for Frccdmcn, in 1862. His wife also survived him. 

1814. — Thomas AVetmore died in Boston, 30 March, 
1860, aged 64. He was son of Hon. William (II.C. 1770) 
and Sarah (Waldo) Wet more, and was bora in Boston, 31 
August, 1795. His father, who was the son of Jeremiah and 
Hannah (Hobbs) Wetmore, was born in Middletown, Conn., 
30 October, 1749 ; was a lawyer by profession ; practised a 
short time in Salem, and removed thence to Boston, where he 
was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas ; an office 
Avhich he held many years. He died in Boston, 18 November, 
1830, aged 81. The subject of this notice was fitted for college 
at the public Latin School in Boston. After graduating, he 
studied law ; and, having been admitted to the bar, he opened 
an office in Boston, but retired from practice many years before 
his death, being possessed of an ample competence of worldly 
estate. He was a most useful and highly respected citizen, and 
devoted many years of his life to the interests of the city. He 
was a member of the common-council from 1829 to 1832; 
was an alderman in 1833, 1834, 1835, 1837, 1838, 1839, 
1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1847. He Avas also for several 
years a member of the board of water - commissioners. He 
was once a candidate for the office of mayor ; but there being 
two other candidates, and a majority of all the votes cast being 
necessary for a choice, there was no election ; and he then with- 
drew from the contest. He was never married. 

1818. — Rev. Joseph Augustus Edwin Long died in 
Hookset, N.H., 3 May, 1860, aged 65. He was son of 
Nathan and Mary (Blaisdell) Long, and was born in Ames- 
bury, Mass., 8 November, 1794. His name, originally, was 
Joseph Long ; but, in 1820, he, by authority of the legislature, 
took the intermediate names of Augustus Edwin. He was 
fitted for college at Amesbury Academy, but concluded to 
become a merchant ; and for that purpose entered the counting- 



1859-60.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 817 

room of Zebedee Cook, on India Wharf, Boston, as a clerk, 
where he remained one summer : but, business being dull in 
consequence of the embargo which existed at that time, he 
relinquished his purpose of a mercantile life, went to Phillips 
Academy, Exeter, N.H., where he reviewed his studies under 
Dr. Benjamin Abbot, and entered college in 1814. Immedi- 
ately after graduating, he entered the Divinity School at Cam- 
bridge as a student, where he remained one year and a half; 
instructing, at the same time, a select number of private pupils. 
He then returned to Amesbury, where he continued his theo- 
logical studies with his brother-in-law, Rev. Benjamin Sawyer 
(D.C. 1808), now of Salisbury, Mass. He was licensed to 
preach by the Essex North Association, 10 October, 1820; and 
went immediately to Kensington, N.H., where he preached, for 
the first time, 29 October of the same year. He continued his 
labors there to good acceptance until 5 June, 1822, when he 
was ordained as an evangelist ; the church and society not being 
able to settle and support a pastor. He continued to preach, 
and perform all the ministerial duties, until 8 April, 1823. He 
then went to Chelmsford, Mass., where he performed the duties 
of ministerial pastor six or eight months. After leaving this 
place, he was employed as a missionary in the state of Maine 
about a year and six months. He often spoke of these eighteen 
months as the most pleasant in his life ; and the people among 
whom he labored spoke of him with much respect and warm 
affection. He then went to Hookset, where he" preached most 
of the time until 1832 ; when he went to Sandown, where he 
preached; and at Epping, Nottingham, and Poplin (now Fre- 
mont) , for three or four years. In Biddeford and Lyman, Me. , 
he was employed, as stated supply, about two years. In the 
autumn of 1837, he returned to his house and home in Hookset. 
After this time, his health being feeble, he preached only occa- 
sionally. He was often sent for to officiate at funerals ; on 
which occasions, he was said to be gifted in prayer, and in 
adapting his remarks to the bereaved mourners. 

His death was very sudden. He went to Concord, N.H., 
the 2d of May ; returned home about five o'clock, p.m., as well as 



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he had been for some weeks; ami died the next morning, 
exchanging this for a better world, calmly and peacefully. For 

sonic weeks previous to his death, he often said he thought he 
should not live but a short time ; that he should die suddenly ; 
and gave directions respecting his funeral. 

He married, 9 September, 1830, Anna Matilda Milton, 
daughter of lie v. Charles William Milton, of Newburyport, 
Mass. ; by whom he had a son, Joseph Samuel Head, and a 
daughter, Mary Jane, — both Avell settled in life. These, with 
their mother, survived him. 

1819. — Hon. Robert Cross died in Lawrence, Mass., 9 
November, 1859, aged 60. He was son of Major William and 
Ruth (Stacy) Cross, and was born in Newburyport, Mass., 3 
July, 1799. He was grandson of Col. Ralph Cross, of the 
army of the Revolution, — afterwards Gen. Cross of the militia ; 
and was appointed, by Jefferson, Collector of Newburyport. His 
mother was a native of Gloucester, Mass. He was fitted for 
college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; and graduated with high 
honors. Immediately after leaving college, he was appointed 
usher in the Boston Latin School, where he remained one year. 
He then studied law in the office of Hon. Ebenezer Moseley, of 
Newburyport (Y.C. 1802) ; was admitted a member of the 
Essex bar in December, 1823 ; and began the practice of his 
profession in Newburyport, where he remained several years. 
He then removed to Amesbury, Mass., where he continued his 
profession with great industry, fidelity, and success, and en- 
joyed repeated marks of the public confidence. He was elected 
a representative to the state legislature from Newburyport in 
1827. In 1832, he was chosen senator from Essex district, 
and again in 1842. In 1844, he removed to Marshall, in the 
state of Michigan, where he resided until 1849, when he 
returned to Massachusetts, and settled in Lawrence, where he 
continued in the practice of his profession until his death. He 
was an accomplished scholar, a sound lawyer, and, in the highest 
sense of the word, a gentleman, — endeared to his friends, and 
respected by the community. 

He married, in 1828, Mary Cabot Tyng, daughter of Hon. 



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Dudley Atkins Tyng, of Newburyport (H.C. 1781). They 
had four children ; viz., Robert D., Mary R. (deceased), Ralph 
(deceased), and Charles E. His eldest son resides in Michigan, 
and his youngest is a cadet at West Point. His wife died very 
suddenly, of cholera, in Michigan, in July, 1849. 

1820. Rev. Benjamin Kent, of Roxbury, Mass., died in 
the insane-hospital at Taunton, Mass., 5 August, 1859, aged 
65. He was son of Samuel and Rhoda (Hill) Kent, and was 
born in that part of Charlestown which is now within the limits 
of Somerville, Mass., 25 May, 1794. He pursued his prepara<- 
tory studies under the instruction of Hon. James Russell, of 
West Cambridge, Mass. (H.C. 1811). He held a high rank 
in his class, and graduated with distinction. The part assigned 
to him on his graduation was a poem " On Rank and Titles ; " 
which was replete with sparkling wit, and elicited greater ap- 
plause than any other performance that day. After leaving 
college, he studied theology at the Divinity School in Cam- 
bridge. He was ordained, 7 June, 1826, as colleague with 
Rev. John Allyn, D.D. (H.C. 1785), over the Unitarian 
church in Duxbury, Mass. Here he labored with great fidelity, 
and to the entire acceptance of the society, until ill health com- 
pelled him to ask a dismission, which was with much reluctance 
granted 7 June, 1833. To his unwearied labors the town was 
much indebted for the establishment of a high-school, which, 
principally through his instrumentality, was begun ; and by his 
exertions a sum sufficient for its maintenance was raised, and 
teachers eminently qualified for the duties of instructors were 
procured. It was first under the charge of Mr. George Putnam 
(H.C. 1826), now the Rev. Dr. Putnam, of Roxbury ; who 
was succeeded by Mr. William Augustus Stearns (H.C. 1827), 
now the Rev. Dr. Stearns, president of Amherst College. 

From Duxbury, Mr. Kent removed, in 1833, to Roxbury ; 
where he taught a private academy for young ladies for several 
years. He was afterwards librarian of the Roxbury Athe- 
naeum until within two or three years, when the feeble state of 
his health compelled him to relinquish it. He was a great suf- 
ferer for many years from extremely severe headache, — so severe 



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that it several times resulted in fits of insanity, such as to render 
it necessary to remove him to the hospital for the insane. He 
Mas aware when these fits were coming upon him, and would 
give directions for his removal when it should be necessary. 
But all these afflictions he endured with remarkable patience and 
resignation. 

Mr. Kent was a great lover of antiquity. He ransacked 
garrets, collected many autographs and literary documents of the 
Pilgrims, and made several discoveries of interest. He was a man 
of superior intellect, great originality, keen wit, and a fine poetic 
taste. He delivered, several years ago, the poem before the 
Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge. His health was broken 
down by hard labor. His life affords a noble example of pa- 
tience, self-devotion, enthusiasm, and virtue, through a life of 
uncommon trials. 

He married, 27 September, 1826, Eleanor Bradford, of 
Boston. They had four children, — all daughters, — who, with 
their mother, survive him. 

1820. — Rev. Stephen Schuyler died in Rhinebeck, 
Duchess county, N.Y., 1 November, 1859, aged 58. He was 
son of Philip J. and Sarah (Rutsen) Schuyler, and was born 
in Rhinebeck, 18 April, 1801. At the age of eight years, he 
was sent to Medfield, Mass., to school, under the charge of Rev. 
Thomas Prentiss, D.D. (H.C. 1766), preparatory for entering 
college, where he remained three years ; thence to Cambridge 
and Brighton three years ; thence to Albany, N.Y. , one year; 
when he entered Union College at Schenectady. There he 
remained two years, when he left ; and in August, 1818, he en- 
tered the junior class at Harvard College. While in college, 
he was studious, exemplary in his deportment, attained a high 
rank in his class, and graduated with honors. Immediately 
after leaving college, he selected the profession of law, and be- 
came a student in the office of Francis Livingston, Esq., at 
Rhinebeek, and in that of Samuel Jones, Esq. (Y.C. 1790), 
who was subsequently chancellor of the state of New York, 
the first judge of the Superior Court of the city of New York, 
and finally judge of the Supreme Court of the state, by elec- 



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tion under the new judiciary system. He received his diploma 
as an attorney in the Supreme Court of the state of New York 
in October, 1823. He then turned his attention to the study of 
the divine law, and became a student in the Divinity School 
at Cambridge for two years, from September, 1824, to August, 
1826. Compelled by ill health to abandon the practice of 
law in the city of New York, he became, in 1830, a permanent 
resident of his native place, Rhinebeck. He married, 11 De- 
cember, 1831, Catharine Morris. Three children were the 
issue of this marriage ; viz., 1. Stephen R., born 23 Novem- 
ber, 1832. 2. Sarah Catharine, born 27 April, 1840 ; died 
8 June, 1848, aged eight years, one month, eleven days. 
3. Rutsen, born 19 April, 1849 ; died 8 March, 1852, aged two 
years, ten months, eighteen days. The lady whom he married, 
was, by religious profession, a member of the Methodist-Epis- 
copal church, and he became a member of the same church in 
1834 ; was licensed as a local preacher in the same year ; was 
ordained to the order of deacon in 1839, and to that of elder in 
1844. He was a most sincere believer in the doctrine of the 
denomination which he had embraced, and was a faithful and 
efficient laborer in his Master's vineyard until his health failed. 
In 1851, he had a severe hemorrhage from the lungs; but, by 
great care, he rallied again, although he was always, after that, 
subject to a severe cough and occasional bleeding. For the last 
two years of his life, his health was very feeble. In May pre- 
vious to his death, he said to his friends that he might get through 
the summer, but should not live through the fall. The disease 
gradually wasted his body away, but his mind continued calm 
and cheerful until the very last. He made all his arrangements 
for his departure to that bright world which his pure spirit was 
so fully prepared to enter, and he gradually passed away into 
that solemn darkness which mortal eye cannot pierce, but which 
to him, doubtless, is lighted up by the radiance of a never- 
ending noon. His wife survived him ; and his only remaining 
child was a civil-engineer, residing in Mississippi. 

1822. — John Frost died in Philadelphia, 28 December, 
1859, aged 59. He was son of Nathaniel and Abigail 

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322 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1850-00. 

(Kimball) Frost, :m<l was born in Kennebunk, Me., 2U Jan- 
uary, 1800. In early life lie manifested great fondness for 
study. He pursued bis preparatory studies at the academy in 
Gorham, Me. ; and, in 1JS18, he entered Bowdoin College, 
where he remained one year, when he left, and entered the 
sophomore class at Harvard College. He held an honorable 
rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated with high honors. 
In the winter immediately subsequent to leaving college, he 
taught school in Cambridgeport. In 1823, he was appointed 
principal of the May hew School in Boston, which position he 
held about four years. In 1828, he removed to Philadelphia ; 
passing the winters of 1827-8 and 1828-9 in Cuba to recover 
from severe attacks of bleeding from the lungs. From 1828 to 
1838, he conducted a school for young ladies ; and, at the latter 
date, accepted the situation of professor of belles-lettres at 
the Central High-School in Philadelphia, which he resigned, in 
1845, to devote himself entirely to literary pursuits. He was, 
during a great portion of his life, a book-maker, — probably the 
most prolific one our country has yet produced. To that pur- 
suit he sacrificed every thing else. He made his pupils his 
assistants, and thus lost for his female school the patronage of 
some of the wealthy families. He mingled the same pursuit 
with his teachings in the High School, and with a similar result. 
The two things were incongruous, and the passion for literature 
triumphed. It is impossible to give a list of the numerous 
works he wrote and compiled. They were principally histories, 
many of them bearing a fictitious name on the titlepage. His- 
tory was his speciality, and this exhaustless mine he Avorked in 
every way. His " Pictorial History of the United States " sold 
largely, upwards of fifty thousand copies having been disposed 
of some years ago ; and it is still popular. Next to his histori- 
cal works, his biographies fill the largest space. He employed 
writers, engravers, and designers, and had a regular workshop 
for the production of books. Nevertheless, his mind, which 
was exceedingly suggestive, was the architect of every thing. 
By unceasing industry in his vocation, the volumes of his 
compilation numbered upwards of three hundred. He was a 



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scholar of ripe attainments, well versed in the Spanish and 
French languages. Although his talents and attainments were 
universally admitted to be of a high order, his love of study 
and reading never flagged. Every new publication, from which 
he hoped to derive fresh information, was read with attention ; 
and his wonderfully fine memory treasured up all of interest. 
In 1843, the honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred 
upon him by Marshall College in Pennsylvania. 

He married, 4 May, 1830, Sarah Ann Burditt, daughter of 
James White and Mary (Rhoades) Burditt, of Boston. They 
had ten children, all born in Philadelphia; viz., 1. Mary Cor- 
delia, born 28 April, 1831. 2. Caroline Augusta, born 3 July, 
1833 ; married, 8 March, 1854, Dr. J. R. Rowand. 3. James 
W. Burditt, born 31 July, 1835 ; died 15 December, 1835. 
4. Sarah Annie, born 20 May, 1837. 5. George Frederic, 
born 16 October, 1839. 6. Frances Emily, born 19 May, 
1842; died 6 August, 1846. 7. Morton, born 6 February, 
1845 ; died 5 February, 1847. 8. Charles William, born 10 
April, 1848. 9. Arthur Burditt, born 17 January, 1851. 10. 
Francis Burditt, born 5 November, 1855 ; died 15 April, 1857. 

Mr. Frost's domestic relations were those of a sincere Chris- 
tian, a most loving husband, and a kind parent. A long life of 
incessant study and labor ended with a peaceful and happy 
death. Weighed down in his last years by business perplexi- 
ties and troubles, his perfect trust in a protecting Providence, 
and his gentle loving-kindness in his family, were never disturbed 
by worldly difficulties. His last illness was very short, and his 
death fearfully sudden : yet, though often in severe bodily pain, 
his mind was, through all his sickness, calm, quiet, and peace- 
ful ; seeming to have laid aside all earthly cares, to wait in 
perfect love and hope the release from his burdens here. 

1824. — Rev. George Washington Burnap died in Bal- 
timore, Md., 8 September, 1859, aged 56. He was son, and 
the youngest of thirteen children, of Rev. Jacob, D.D. (H.C. 
1770) and Elizabeth (Brooks) Buniap, and was born in Mer- 
rimack, N.H., 30 November, 1802. His father was born in 
Reading, Mass., 2 November, 1748; was ordained pastor of 



324 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1859-60. 

the church in Merrimack, 14 October, 1772 ; and died 2G De- 
cember, L821, aged 73; having sustained his pastoral relation- 
ship with his people upwards of forty-nine years. His mother 
was t!ic daughter of Caleb and Ruth (Albree) Brooks, ofMed- 
ford, Mass., and Bister of the late Gov. John Brooks. The 
subject of this notice was fitted for college at the academy in 
Thetford, Vt., and graduated with high honors. After leaving 
college, he studied theology at the Divinity School in Cam- 
bridge. He was ordained pastor of the First Independent 
(Unitarian) Church in Baltimore, 23 April, 1828, as successor 
of Kev. Jared Sparks (II. C. 1815), where he labored with 
great acceptance until his decease, a period of thirty-one years. 
In this outpost of the Unitarian faith, although not gifted with 
such an address as might be supposed to captivate a Southern 
audience, he soon obtained a standing in his congregation, and 
a reputation with the public, such as few clergymen have en- 
joyed ; and maintained them unimpaired through his ministry. 
He retained to the last an earnest simplicity of character, 
which was his peculiar trait ; and commanded universal respect 
for his genial disposition and high Christian aims. He was not 
brilliant, but was solid ; and his discussions, whether social or 
from the pulpit, were marked by strict logic and conscientious 
fairness. His publications, mostly upon religious topics and 
moral subjects, were numerous, and of a high order of merit. 
His social position in Baltimore gave him a wide sphere of use- 
fulness, independently of his labors in his pastoral relation ; and 
he did much, by means of lectures, to elevate and refine public 
sentiment, and to diffuse useful knowledge. He was a member of 
the Maryland Historical Society ; and was one of the board 
of trustees of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, the build- 
ing for the accommodation of which has just been erected. 
His thorough scholarship, and his large acquaintance with 
books, rendered his aid in that body most valuable, particularly 
in connection with the organization of the library, a subject in 
which he felt a deep interest. In 1849, the degree of doctor 
of divinity was conferred upon him by Harvard College. 

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of Amos A. Williams, Esq., a distinguished merchant of Bal- 
timore. They had three children, — one son and two daugh- 
ters ; of whom the son and one daughter died in infancy. The 
other daughter and her mother are living;. 

He published, in 1835, a volume of "Lectures to Young 
Men on the Cultivation of the Mind, the Formation of Charac- 
ter, and the Conduct of Life ; " in the same year, a volume of 
"Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman ; " in 1842, 
" Lectures on the History of Christianity." In 1844, he con- 
tributed to Sparks's American Biography a memoir of Leonard 
Calvert, first Governor of Maryland. In 1845, he published 
" Expository Lectures on the Principal Texts of the Bible 
which relate to the Doctrine of the Trinity ; " a volume of 
"Miscellanies," and a "Biography of Henry T. Ingalls." In 

1848, he published a small work entitled " Popular Objections 
to Unitarian Christianity Considered and Answered ; " and, in 
1850, twenty discourses "On the Rectitude of Human Nature." 
He was a contributor to the pages of the " Christian Examiner " 
from the year 1834. 

1824. — Caleb Morton Stimson died in Newton Lower 
Falls, Mass., 6 July, 1860, aged 56. He was son of Samuel 
and Susanna (Bigelow) Stimson, and was born in Newton, 
13 April, 1804. His father, who was son of Jeremiah and 
Sarah Stimson, was born in Boston in 1765 ; was brought up 
a merchant ; travelled abroad to some extent ; and finally settled 
in business, as a grocer, on Long Wharf, Boston, having en- 
tered into partnership with his younger brother, Caleb. He 
was married, 4 July, 1796, by Rev. John Thornton Kirkland, 
to Susanna Bigelow. They had but two children, — the subject 
of this notice, and one elder brother who died in infancy. When 
the yellow-fever broke out in Boston, his father relinquished 
business, removed to New T ton, where he purchased a farm, on 
which lie lived until his death, which took place in November, 

1849, at the age of eighty-four years. His mother was the 
daughter of Thomas and Betsey (Wales) Bigelow, of Wal- 
tham, Mass. Young Stimson was fitted for college mostly by 
Rev. Charles Train, of Framingham, Mass. (H.C. 1805), but 



32G NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1859-60. 

passed a lew months In completing his preparatory studies at 
Milton Academy. After leaving college, he studied law in part 
at the Law School in Cambridge, and partly in the office of 
Hun. Lemuel Shaw (II.C. 1800), of Boston. He was admit- 
ted to the bar in Boston in 1827 or 1828, but did not enter into 
practice ; for, being an only child, at his father's express desire 
he went to reside with him at Newton, and remained there, with 
the exception of some brief intervals, during the remainder of 
his life. Inheriting an ample competence, and his health having 
been for many years in a very feeble state, he pursued no regular 
business. Possessing a most amiable disposition, he led a 
blameless life, and finally passed away with calmness and com- 
posure, leaving no enemy behind him. 

He married, 27 April, 1847, Charlotte Augusta Crehore, 
daughter of Lemuel Crehore, of Newton, but had no children. 
His wife survived him. 

1825. — Hilary Breton Cenas died in New Orleans, 26 
October, 1859, aged 53. He was son of Blaise and Catharine 
(Baker) Cenas, and was born in Philadelphia, 5 November, 
1805. He was prepared for college by Rev. James F. Hull, 
rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia. On leaving college, he 
chose the profession of law, and pursued his studies under 
the instruction of William Christy and John P. Grymes, of New 
Orleans ; and, after his admission to the bar, he opened an office 
in that city, where he practised for several years ; but subse- 
quently relinquished it, and established himself as a notary- 
public. He was a gentleman of great affability of manner, was 
highly esteemed for his many excellent personal qualities, and 
retained the confidence of a large business-acquintance in the 
exercise of the duties of his important profession. 

He married, February, 1833, Margaret Pierce, of New Or- 
leans, who survived him. They had thirteen children, — seven 
sons and six daughters, — of whom two sons and all the daughters 
survived him. 

1830. — John White Browne, of Boston, was instantly 
killed in Braintree, Mass., 1 May, 1860, by accidentally falling 
from the platform of a railroad-car while the train was in motion. 



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He was fifty years of age. He was son of James and Lydia (Vin- 
cent) Browne, and was born in Salem, Mass., 29 March, 1810. 
His father was the eldest lineal descendant of Elder John Browne, 
the ruling elder of the First Church of the Massachusetts-Bay 
Colony at Salem, whose acceptance of the eldership the Rev. 
Mr. Higginson made the condition of his own settlement as 
pastor. His great-grandfather, for whom he was named, was 
John White ; whose daughter, Mary White, was the wife of 
Elder William Browne, and mother of James Browne, the father 
of John White Browne. Both William and James were elders 
in the East Church, Salem, — Unitarian, under the pastorate of 
the late Dr. William Bentley (H.C. 1777), — James succeed- 
ing at the death of his father. 

The subject of this notice was fitted for college at the Salem 
Classical School, under the charge of Theodore Ames and Henry 
Kemble Oliver. While in college, he was the chum of Hon. 
Charles Sumner. He attained a very high rank of scholar- 
ship in his class, and graduated with distinguished honors. He 
studied law one year at the Law School at Cambridge, one year 
with Hon. Rufus Choate (D.C. 1819), and one year with Hon. 
Leverett Saltonstall (H.C. 1802) in Salem. He practised his 
profession several years in Lynn, Mass. ; but, about twelve 
years before his death, he removed to Boston, where he continued 
in practice, principally as a conveyancer, until his decease. In 
1837, he was elected a representative to the legislature; and 
in 1838, during his absence from the state, he was nominated by 
the whig party of Essex county as a candidate for the state 
senate. On his return, he declined the nomination, for the rea- 
son that he was unwilling to become the candidate of any party 
for political office. From that time he carefully avoided political 
prominence (although he took a warm and constant interest in the 
course of public affairs), devoting himself with extreme assiduity 
to the business of his profession. He took an especially service- 
able part in almost every effort for criminal reform, and for the 
improvement of prison discipline, during his long period of active 
professional service ; and was also earnestly, though quietly, 
devoted to the promotion of the antislavery movement. His 



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daily life was an exhibition of a noble, highly cultivated intellect, 
of the purest morality, and the gentlest kindly feelings for the 
welfare of the whole human race. 

He married, in 1842, .Martha Ann Gibbs, daughter of Capt. 
Barnabas Lincoln, of Hingham, Mass. They had but one 
child, — a daughter (Laura Lincoln Browne), — who, with her 
mother, survived him. 

1830. — Dr. Henry Lincoln died in Lancaster, Mass., 
29 February, 1860, aged 55. He was son of William and Ta- 
bitha (Kendall) Lincoln, and was born in Leominster, Mass., 
11 August, 1804. His father was a farmer, and died in Leo- 
minster, 27 December, 184G. His mother was daughter of 
Edward Kendall, of Fitzwilliam, N.H., originally from Leo- 
minster. He was fitted for college, in part, by Hon. Joseph 
Gowing Kendall (H. C. 1810), of Worcester, Mass., then 
practising law at Leominster ; and in part at Lawrence 
Academy in Groton. After leaving college, he went "to Phila- 
delphia, where he studied medicine under the instruction of Dr. 
Samuel Jackson, of that city ; and received his degree of M.D. 
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1834. Returning to Mas- 
sachusetts, he established himself in Lancaster, where he acquired 
an extensive practice, and was highly respected. He married, 
14 February, 1838, Martha Bond; and had children, — 
William Henry (who died before him), Mary Catharine, Ellen 
Sears, Martha Bond, Francis Newhall, and Edward Hartwell. 
His widow survived him. 

1838. — Abel Fox died of consumption, in Quincy, 111., 
14 November, 1859, aged 41 years. He was son of Oliver and 
Mary (Dorr) Fox, and was born in Fitchburg, Mass., 21 Au- 
gust, 1818. His mother was sister of the late Samuel Dorr, of 
Boston, for many years president of the New-England Bank. 
The subject of this notice was fitted for college partly at Leices- 
ter Academy, and completed his studies at Exeter (N.H.) 
Academy. He did not study a profession; but, soon after he 
graduated, removed to Quincy, 111., and devoted himself to 
agriculture. He there married the widow of his brother, Henry 
Fox. Her maiden name was Abby Whittemore, formerly of 
Boston. He left no children. 



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1843. — Elisha Winslow Tracy died in Hampshire, 
Kane county, 111., 5 February, 1860, aged 36. He was son 
of Elisha and Lucy C. (Huntington) Tracy, and was born 
in Norwich, Conn., 8 April, 1823. His name originally was 
Winslow Decatur Tracy, which was changed soon after lie 
graduated. He was fitted for college at the academy in 
Cheshire, Conn. He pursued his professional studies at the 
Law School in Cambridge. Having come into possession of a 
considerable fortune soon after leaving college, by the death of 
his father, he went to Chicago, 111. He was admitted to the 
bar in the fall of 1844, and at once took a high rank in his 
profession. The " Chicago Times " thus speaks of his abilities : 
"His powers of intellect were indeed remarkable. His mind 
possessed that comprehensive quality which beholds a subject at 
once in all its various aspects, and perceives their relations and 
bearings without the labor of study. Its habit was eminently 
philosophical, its tone strong and vigorous. He was no follower 
of other men's thoughts. His utterance, whether in a set speech 
or unpremeditated debate, betrayed an originality of thought, a 
clearness of comprehension, which are seldom'found even in our 
most eminent men. His imagination, too, was extremely fine; 
and his speeches very frequently embraced figures and tropes of 
surprising beauty. Indeed, an elevated poetical quality, united 
with originality of ideas and philosophical treatment of subjects, 
were the distinguishing characteristics of his oratory." 

Mr. Tracy never held any political office. He married, in 
November, 1858, Lizzie Thayer, a young and amiable lady 
of Chicago ; and with his bride went immediately to Europe, 
where he spent about a year in travelling in England and on 
the Continent. On his return, he purchased a farm in the town 
of Hampshire, Kane county, with the design of abandoning the 
law, and engaging in agriculture. There he died, leaving a 
widow only twenty years of age, but no children. 

1848. — James Atherton Dugan died in Brewster, Mass., 
5 June, 1860, aged 33. He was son of James and Sophia 
(Atherton) Dugan, and was born in Boston, 4 February, 1827. 
He received his education wholly at the public schools in Boston, 

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and was prepared for college at the Latin School. lie was a 
remarkably studious, bright, and exemplary scholar when a boy ; 
so much so, that three Franklin medals were awarded to him at 
three several schools which he attended ; namely, at the Wells 
School in 1838, at the English High School in 1842, and at the 
Latin School in 1844. While in college, he attained a high 
rank in scholarship, and was a great tint trite among his class- 
mates. But in his junior year his health failed, so that he was 
unable to continue his studies ; and he was obliged to leave. He 
went a voyage to Rio Janeiro, and returned with his health in a 
great measure restored ; and his degree was conferred upon him 
in 1851. After his return, he taught a private school in Bed- 
ford, Mass., for some time ; after which he was engaged as an 
assistant in the school of Mr. Epes Sargent Dixwell (H.C. 
1827) in Boston. He next removed to Brewster, Mass., where 
he opened a private school, which he continued as long as his 
health would permit. He was a popular teacher, of unblemished 
moral character ; and his early death was a sad affliction to his 
family and friends. His father died suddenly at Brewster, while 
on a visit to that place, 10 August, 1858, aged QQ. 

He married, 5 August, 1852, Helen, daughter of Elijah 
Cobb, Esq., of Brewster. They had three children, — two sons 
and one daughter, — who, with their mother, survived him. 

1848. — Samuel Paksons died in Philadelphia, 2>> October, 
1859, aged 30. He was son of Samuel and Mary Brown 
(Allen) Parsons, and was born in Boston, 2 May, 1829. Pie 
was fitted for college at the public Latin School in Boston, 
where a Franklin medal was awarded to him for superior scholar- 
ship. He held a highly respectable rank in his class, and gradu- 
ated with distinction. After leaving college, he pursued the 
study of law, partly in the office of Charles Bishop Goodrich 
(D.C. 1822), and partly in that of William Brigham (H.C. 
1829), of Boston. Having been admitted to the bar, he opened 
an office in Boston ; but, his health failing, he left the city, and 
resided for a time on his father's farm in Newton, where he in a 
great measure recovered, and then concluded to change his resi- 
dence to Philadelphia, but did not long survive after his removal 
to that city. He was unmarried. 



1SJ9-60.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 331 

1848. — Dr. Adams Wiley, of Roxbury, Mass., died in 
Clifton, Mich., to which place he had gone for the benefit of his 
health, 2 April, 1860, aged 33. He was son of Thomas and 
Margaret (Wright) Wiley, and was born in Boston, 16 Novem- 
ber, 1826. He was a twin, — the two graduating in the same 
class. As they were born the same year that the two presidents, 
Adams and Jefferson, died, their parents named them Adams 
and Jefferson respectively. The father of the subject of this 
notice was born in Beading, now South Beading, Mass., 7 
August, 1784; and died in Boxbury, 25 May, 1860; having 
survived his son only seven weeks and four days. His mother 
was born in Boston, 23 March, 1791 ; and his parents were 
married by Bev. John Murray, 2 December, 1810. He was 
fitted for college at Lunenburg Academy, of which John Bod- 
man Bollins (D.C. 1837) was principal. While in college, he 
was a diligent student, attained a very respectable standing in 
scholarship, and his deportment and moral character were with- 
out a blemish. After leaving college, he pursued his professional 
studies at the Tremont Medical School in Boston ; and, having 
received his degree of M.D. in 1852, he established himself in 
Boxbury, where, by his judicious practice, he became quite popu- 
lar, and the prospect opened to him a wide field for success and 
eminence in his profession. During his residence in Boxbury, he 
was appointed one of the physicians of the dispensary ; and 
was also secretary of the athenamm, in which institution he 
took a lively interest. Amiable in his disposition and manners, 
cultivatec^in mind and tastes, genial and generous in his feel- 
ings, pure and exemplary in his whole conduct and character, 
he was esteemed and loved by a large circle of kindred and 
friends. His death came upon him somewhat unexpectedly, but 
it was singularly calm and beautiful; and, to quote an expression 
from a pencilled note written by him but the day before his 
decease, he was " full of faith in a God who had showed his love 
for sinners." He was never married. 

1852. — Charles Wentworth Upham died in Buffalo, 
N.Y., 2 April, 1860, aged 29. He was the eldest son of Hon. 
Charles Wentworth (H.C. 1821) and Mary Ann (Holmes) 



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LTpham, and was born in Salem, .Mass., 1!) August, 1830. 
His father, who was son of Judge Joshua LTpham (II. C. 1763), 
of Brookfield, Mass., a refugee, was horn in St. John, N.B., 
1 May, 1802. His mother was daughter of Rev. Ahiel (Y.C, 
1783) and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes, of Cambridge, Mass. 

In the summer of 1<S.">9, young Upham was sent to St. John, 
N.B. (where his aunt, Fanny Wendell, resided), to improve his 
health ; where he spent nearly seven months. On his return the 
following year, he went to the Ropes farm in Dan vers, where 
he passed the summer, and where he repeatedly went ; his pa- 
rents, on account of his health, always sending him away from 
school during: the summer season. In the interim he attended the 
Salem schools, and finally there completed his preparation for 
college at the Latin School, under Mr. Oliver Carleton (D.C. 
1824). In the summer of 1847, with Darwin Erastus Ware, 
of his class, and Henry Stone, who entered Harvard, but gradu- 
ated at Bowdoin College, he went to Portland by steamboat. 
There he and his companions, dressed in pedestrian style, went 
on foot round the White Mountains to Andover, Me., back to 
Winnipiseogee, thence through Concord, N.H., home, all the 
way on foot, having been absent twenty-one days. In the sum- 
mers of 1849 and 1851, he also made excursions to the White 
Mountains ; and, in the vacation in his senior year, he journeyed 
to Brandon, Vt., to Washington, D.C, and to Providence, 
R.I. He was college marshal at the inauguration of President 
Sparks in the spring of 1849 ; chief-marshal at the celebration 
of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, 
17 June, 1850; chief-marshal at the railroad jubilee celebra- 
tion in Boston, in September, 1851 ; chief-marshal at the class- 
day ; and vice-president at the class-supper. He suggested the 
idea of class-daguerrotypes, first carried out in the class to which 
he belonged, and which has since been succeeded by photographs 
in later classes. 

Immediately after graduating, he entered the Law School at 
Cambridge ; and, after remaining the usual period, he received 
the degree of bachelor of laws ; was admitted to the bar, 
and opened an office in Salem. In 1855, he went to Europe, 



1859-60.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 333 

where he remained about two years, enriching his mind by vis- 
iting the most interesting portions of England and the Continent, 
and increasing his stock of useful information ; but, as he was 
about to leave England on his return, the first symptoms of that 
fell disease, consumption, appeared, which terminated his life. 
In the summer of 1857, he removed to Buffalo, where he estab- 
lished himself in the practice of his profession ; having been 
admitted a partner with Hon. S. G. Haven and William Dor- 
sheimer, under the firm of Haven, Dorsheimer, and Upham. 
The firm was originally Fillmore, Hall, and Haven. With a 
handsome person, fine colloquial powers, and a mind enriched 
by the observations and experiences of foreign travel, he was a 
favorite with all who knew him, and every thing seemed to pro- 
mise for him a brilliant and successful career. It was, however, 
otherwise ordered ; and he was cut down in the morning of life : 
but he submitted to his inevitable doom with a cheerful, Chris- 
tian resignation, and with a full confidence of a blessed immor- 
tality beyond the grave. 

He married, 22 June, 1859, Mary, daughter of Hon. 
Solomon G. Haven, of Buffalo ; who survived the partner of 
her affections. 

The members of the bar in Buffjilo held a meeting on the 
evening of the 4th of April, at which appropriate and respectful 
tributes were paid to the memory of their youthful associate ; 
and subsequently attended the funeral in a body, pursuant to a 
vote to that effect. 

1854. — James Brown Kendall died at the residence of 
his father, in Saxonville (Framingham, Mass.), 9 October, 
1859, aged 25 years, lacking two days. He was the only son 
of Rev. James Augustus (H.C. 1823) and Maria Boyle 
(Brown) Kendall, and was born in Medfield, Mass., 11 Octo- 
ber, 1834. When about tAvo and a half years old, he removed 
with his parents to Saxonville ; about two years later, to Stow, 
Mass. ; and in July, 1842, to Cambridge ; which place was his 
residence until the summer previous to his death. He was fitted 
for college at the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, under 
Edmund Burke Whitman (H.C. 1838), now of Kansas. He 



334 NECROLOGY OF Al.l'.MM [1859-60. 

graduated with high honors. In the winter of his junior year, 
he taught school in Scusseti ( Sandwich, Mass.). After gradu- 
ating, he taught with great success a private classical school in 
Portsmouth, N.I I., for two years; in the mean time pursuing 
the study of law, which lie subsequently continued and com- 
pleted at the Law School in Cambridge. Having been admitted 
to the bar, he, in partnership with his classmate, Payson Elliot 
Tucker, opened an office in Worcester, Mass., in the summer of 
1859. About two months afterwards, he was seized with 
typhoid-fever, of which he died after a brief illness. lie was 
brilliant, witty, learned, of stern integrity and high moral char- 
acter. 

1855. — Andrew Lammet YONGUE was killed on the Char- 
lotte and South-Carolina Railroad, at Columbia, S.C., 17 
November, 1859, aged 31. He was the youngest of three 
children (the others, a brother named Robert A., and a sister 
named Sarah) of William and Elizabeth (Lammey) Yongue, 
and was born in Buckhead, Fairfield District, S.C., 12 April, 
1828. Both his parents died several years since. His father 
died 13 November, 1842, aged 77 years; and his mother died 
19 January, 1844. He was prepared for South-Carolina Col- 
lege at the Mount-Zion Collegiate Institute, J. W. Hudson, 
principal, Winnsborough, S.C. He entered the sophomore 
class of the South-Carolina College, December, 1851 ; and left, 
December, 1852, with one hundred and ten others, who were 
compelled to leave on account of what is known as the " Biscuit 
Rebellion." He entered the sophomore class of Harvard Col- 
lege, March, 1853. It was his intention, after graduation, to 
prepare for the ministry : but his health became delicate from 
exposure during his residence at college, and passing to and fro, 
so that, in a measure, he had to give up study, and he settled 
on a farm inherited from his father ; but becoming embarrassed by 
the deaths of his negroes, and other misfortunes, he was forced 
to change his business. He then taught school for eighteen 
months, with a view still for the ministry, if his health would 
permit. To raise further funds to enable him to carry out his 
purpose, he obtained the situation of conductor on the Charlotte 



1859-60.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 335 

and South-Carolina Railroad. About three months after enter- 
ing upon his new duties, he met with the unfortunate accident 
which terminated his life. He attempted to step on the train 
while in motion : his foot slipped, and he fell under the cars ; the 
wheels passed over both his legs. One was taken off above 
the knee, and the other broken above the ankle. This was on 
the 16th of November; and he died the next day. He bore 
his suffering with great patience, and not a murmur escaped his 
lips ; believing it was the will of his heavenly Father that he 
should die thus, and for some good end. He died with a prayer 
upon his lips, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." He was buried 
at the Salem church, Fairfield District, of which he was a mem- 
ber. He was never married. 

One calamity follows another in quick succession. Robert 
A. Yongue, the only brother of Andrew L., died on the 4th of 
February, 1860 ; having been left by the cars seven miles from 
Charleston, while warming himself at a fire by the road ; and in 
attempting to walk over a high trestle (thirty feet) , stepping on 
a rotten plank which gave way, he fell through the distance men- 
tioned, on stumps, and into water four feet deep. His remains 
were not found until the next day. The expression of Andrew 
L. Yongue, that his death was for some good end, was verified : 
for his brother, who had been thoughtless of his latter end, was 
almost inconsolable at his death ; from that period became a 
changed man ; and there was good reason to believe that he was 
prepared for the sudden and unexpected death that awaited him. 
He was a graduate at the South-Carolina College, some years 
ago. He left a widow and two children to mourn their irre- 
parable loss. 

Their sister Sarah, the only surviving member of the family, 
became the wife of David Milling, Esq., of Mill View, Fairfield 
District, S.C. ; where he at one time held the office of post- 
master. She was in feeble and delicate health after the melan- 
choly deaths of her brothers, following each other in so quick 
succession. 

1857. — Edward Thomas Damon, of Wayland, Mass., 
died in Cambridge, Mass., of small-pox, 30 November, 1859, 



336 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1850-00. 

aged 25. He was son of* Thomas Jefferson and Rachel 
(Thomas) Damon, and \v;is horn in Way land, 1!) April, L834, 
He began his preparatory studies t*<»r college at Lawrence 
Academy in Grroton, Mass. ; and completed them under the 
instruction of Mrs. Samuel Ripley , of Concord, Mass. lie 
graduated with distinguished honors. After leaving college, he 
began the study of medicine, at the Medieal School in Boston, 
under the instruction of Drs. John Ware (II. C. 1813) and 
Morrill and Jeffries Wvinan (II. C. 1833) ; and, while attending 
the course of medical lectures, he was attacked with that loath- 
some disease which terminated his life. He was a great favorite 
wherever he was known ; and his premature removal, just as a 
brilliant prospect for the future was opening before him, was 
a sad affliction to his parents and other relatives, as well as to 
his classmates and many friends. 

1857. — George Hollixgsworth died in Groton, Mass., 
8 August, 1859, aged 23. He was son of John Mark and 
Emmeline (Cornell) Hollingsworth, and was born in Braintrce, 
Mass., 29 July, 1836. Pie entered the Boston Latin School at 
the age of ten; and, after remaining there somewhat over two 
years, left, upon the removal of his parents to West Cambridge ; 
and there he completed his preparatory studies for admission into 
college, under the instruction of a private tutor. He taught school 
during the winter of 1857-8, and subsequently was engaged in 
the paper-manufacturing business with his father in Groton. 

1858. — Amory Pollard Sawyer died in Bolton, Mass., 
20 May, 1860, aged 26. He was son of Nathan and Lucinda 
(Pollard) Sawyer, and was born in Bolton, 30 October, 1833. 
He was fitted for college at the high-school in Bolton. The 
disease by which he was so prematurely taken away was con- 
sumption, the incipient symptoms of which appeared during 
his junior year at college ; and nearly the whole of his senior 
year he was absent from Cambridge, returning only to join in 
the festivities of Class-day. While his health permitted, he 
was a diligent and faithful student ; of modest, unassuming de- 
portment ; winning the love of his classmates and the regard of 
his instructors. 



1859-60.] OF HAEVARD COLLEGE. 337 

1859. — Henry Huston Abbott died in Charlestown, 
Mass., of typhoid-fever, after an illness of eight days, 22 July, 
1859, aged 23. He was the eldest son of John Gilman and 
Sophia (Huston) Abbott, and was born in Charlestown, 18 
July, 1836. His father was a native of Concord, N.H., and 
was born 27 March, 1812. His mother was born in Farming- 
ton, Me., 23 December, 1814. Young Abbott pursued his 
preparatory studies at the high-school in Charlestown. While 
in college, he was a diligent student, constant in his attendance 
at all recitations, modest in his demeanor, and exemplary in his 
conduct. He made extraordinary exertions to secure the advan- 
tages of a college education, intending afterwards to devote him- 
self to the business of a teacher. But he was cut off in the 
dawning of his hopes : death marked him as the first victim in 
his class. His degree was conferred upon him : he was per- 
mitted, while on his death-bed, to look at his diploma; but, within 
forty-eight hours from his graduation, he ceased to live. 



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1860-61. 



1795. — Rev. Caleb Bradley died in Westbrook, Me., 
2 June, 1861, aged 89 years. He was son of Deacon Amos 
and Elizabeth (Page) Bradley, and was born in that part of 
Dracut which is now within the limits of Lowell, Mass, 12 
March, 1772. His parents were natives of Haverhill, Mass. 
He labored on his father's farm until he was seventeen years of 
age ; when he began the study of the Latin language, under the 
instruction of Rev. Solomon Aiken, of Dracut (D.C. 1784). 
He afterwards studied for three months with Rev. Simon Finley 
Williams, in Methuen (D.C. 1785). The next year, he en- 
tered Atkinson (N.H.) Academy, where he completed his pre- 
paratory studies; and in August, 1791, he entered Dartmouth 
College, where he remained two years ; when he left, and en- 
tered the junior class in Harvard College ; where he graduated, 
in due course, with a respectable standing. In an autobiog- 
raphy, he stated, that, while in college, he " was never absent 
from prayers, nor from any of the college exercises ; was never 
admonished or fined." Immediately after graduating, he began 
the study of divinity with Rev. Henry Cumings, of Billerica, 
Mass. (H.C. 1760). Within a year afterwards, he was appro- 
bated by the Andover Association, and preached his first sermon 
in Billerica. He was ordained pastor of the church in Fal- 
mouth (now Westbrook), Me., 9 October, 1799. He con- 
tinued his pastoral labors in this place, with great diligence and 
fidelity, until 28 April, 1828, when he resigned his charge; 
and, on the following day, the Rev. Henry dishing Jewett 
(B.U. 1824) was ordained as his successor. The society were 
desirous that Mr. Bradley should remain as senior pastor, and 
that Mr. Jewett should be settled as his colleague ; but he pre- 
ferred to be relieved from the burdens and responsibilities of the 



1860-61.] OE HARVARD COLLEGE. 339 

pastoral charge. He did not, however, give up preaching, but 
continued his ministerial labors. For more than six years, he 
officiated as chaplain at the city poor-house in Portland, and was 
twice delegated by the Maine Missionary Society to act as 
missionary in the county of Cumberland ; and he continued to 
preach occasionally in various places. 

He married, 16 November, 1801, Sally Crocker, of Taun- 
ton, Mass. She died 27 April, 18^1, leaving six children. 
He married for his second wife, in 1827, Mrs. Susan Partridge 
(widow of Nathaniel Partridge), whose maiden name was 
Susan Smith, originally from Wrentham, Mass. She died 3 
November, 1843 ; and he married for his third wife, 26 De- 
cember, 1844, Mrs. Abigail Codman, widow of James Codman, 
Esq., of Gorham, Me. She died 17 August, 1854. She was 
a native of Halifax, Mass. 

1797. — Hon. Daniel Appleton White died in Salem, 
Mass., 30 March, 1861, aged 84 years. He was son of Capt. 
John and Elizabeth (Haynes) White, and was born in that part 
of Methuen which is now the city of Lawrence, 7 June, 1776. 
In June, 1792, he entered the academy in Atkinson, N.H., 
where he was fitted for college. He graduated with the high- 
est honors of his class. With a love of sound learning and 
classic literature, his mind was richly imbued with the element- 
ary course of college-life, and formed a sure foundation for 
future progress in intellectual culture. In 1799, he was ap- 
pointed a tutor in the Latin department of the college ; which 
post he occupied until 1803. During that time, he had entered 
his name as a student-of-law in the office of Francis Dana 
Charming, of Cambridge (H.C. 1794). He was always deeply 
interested in the success of the college ; and as a general 
supervisor of all its concerns, as a temporary member of the 
faculty, and member of the board of overseers, he never lost 
sight of its interests. In September, 1803, he went to Salem 
for a year, and entered the law-office of Hon. Samuel Putnam 
(H.C. 1787), afterwards judge of the Supreme Court. In 
Judge Putnam's office, the late Hon. John Pickering (H.C. 
1796) was a fellow-student ; and, jointly with that distinguished 



340 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [18(30-61. 

scholar, young White prepared, for the use of the college, an 
editon of "Sallust," which was published by Cushing and 
Appleton; but the whole edition, as soon as it was ready for 
delivery, was destroyed by fire. In 1804, Judge White was 
admitted to the Essex bar, and established himself in the prac- 
tice of law, in Newburyport, in the days when there were 
legal giants in Essex, and when his discipline and well-stored 
mind insured for him a successful practice. At this interesting 
period of our political history, his talents and discretion drew 
him into the arena of political life ; and, from 1810 to 1814, he 
was a conspicuous member of the senate of Massachusetts, under 
the administration of Gov. Strong ; and was a firm supporter of 
his patriotic and practical policy. In November, 1814, he was 
elected a member of Congress from Essex North District, and 
commissioned ; but, before the meeting of Congress, he re- 
signed, to accept the office of judge of probate, to which he 
was appointed by Gov. Strong, upon the resignation of Judge 
Holtcn, in May, 1815. In 1817, he moved to Salem, where 
he passed the remainder of his life ; continuing to fill the office 
of probate-judge, with uncommon ability, until he resigned it in 
the summer of 1853 ; blessed with an old age, serene and 
bright to the latest moment ; and enjoying, by universal consent, 
the distinction of being regarded as, beyond dispute, the first 
citizen in the community where he resided. 

Judge White's vast literary resources were always at the 
conlmand of his friends and the public ; and he was the dis- 
penser of a liberal hospitality, and the patron of every good 
enterprise — moral, aesthetic, and educational — which tended to 
foster the highest interests of the community. He was one of 
the founders and directors of the Divinity School at Cam- 
bridge ; was an overseer of Harvard College from 1842 to 
1853 ; delivered the address at the second meeting of the 
Association of the Alumni in 1844. He was the founder of 
the lyceum in Salem; was the president of the athenaeum, 
and presided over the Essex Institute from its first establish- 
ment ; was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society ; 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; and received 



1860-61.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 341 

from Harvard College, in 1837, the degree of doctor of laws. 
He delivered eulogies on the decease of Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch 
and Hon. John Pickering. He was the author of several other 
addresses and memoirs of great literary merit. Early in his 
judicial career, he wrote a valuable book on probate jurisdiction. 
As an author, he was master of a singularly clear and nervous 
style, which was exhibited through a period of more than sixty 
years. But it was in the intimate relations of family and friend- 
ship that his graces and excellences as a man and a Christian 
were most remarkable ; and these were continued literally to the 
the very last minute of his most consistent life, in loving recog- 
nitions, sentences of faith, and prayer, and hymns of praise. 

Judge White married, first, 24 May, 1807, Mrs. Mary van 
Schalkwyck, daughter of the late Dr. Josiah Wilder (Y.C. 
1767), of Lancaster, Mass. She died 29 June, 1811 ; and he 
married, second, in Salem, 1 August, 1819, Mrs. Eliza Wetmore, 
daughter of William Orne, Esq., late of Salem, merchant. 
She died 27 March, 1821 ; and he married, third, in Charles- 
town, 22 January, 1824, Mrs. Ruth Rogers, daughter of 
Joseph Hurd, Esq., late of Charlestown, merchant. He had, 
by his first wife, three daughters ; by his second wife, one son, — 
William Orne White, — graduated at Harvard College in 1840, 
and became a Unitarian minister in Keene, N.H. ; by his third 
wife, one son, — Henry Orne White, — who graduated at Har- 
vard College in 1843, and became a physician in Salem; also 
two other sons, who died in infancy. 

1798. — Isaac Fiske died in Cambridge, Mass., 11 March, 
1861, aged 82 years. He was the youngest son of Jonathan 
and Abigail (Fiske) Fiske, and was born in Weston, Mass., 4 
December, 1778. His father was son of Nathan and Mary 
(Fiske) Fiske, and was born in Weston, 15 December, 1739. 
His mother was daughter of Thomas and Mary (Pierce) Fiske, 
and was born in Weston, 16 August, 1739. The ancestors and 
brothers of Mr. Fiske were remarkable for their longevity. 
Three of his brothers died at the ages respectively of 75 
years, 92 years and 4 months, and 93 years and 6 months ; a 
sister died at upwards of 86 years ; and a brother, now living, 



342 NECROLOGY OF ai.i MM [lbGO-61. 

has arrived al the age of - s 7 years. Mr. Fiske was fitted for 
college by his brother. Rev. Thaddeue Fiske (H.C. 1785). 
After leaving college, he studied law with Hon. A.rtemas Ward, 
then ofWestOD (H.C. L783) ; was admitted to the bar in 1801, 
and succeeded to the lucrative business of Mr. Ward after the 
removal of the latter to ( "harlestown. lie approved himself 
to be an example of constancy, skill, and fidelity, in his official 
duties ; verifying the proverb of Solomon, that " the hand of the 
diligent maketh rich." He was for more than thirty years 
register of probate for the county of Middlesex, having been 
appointed by Gov. Brooks in 1817. In transacting the busi- 
ness of this office, — an office of great responsibility, — he was 
remarkable alike for accuracy and despatch, and no less for his 
readiness to give advice and directions, when called for, to those 
who were intrusted, as executors or administrators, with the 
settlement of the estates of the deceased. In the midst of his 
useful labors in this office, he was superseded in the year 1851, 
in consequence of a political change in the administration of the 
government of Massachusetts, in compliance with a usage not 
uncommon, by which the public good is often sacrificed to party 
preferences. It is believed that at the time of his death he was 
the oldest member of the Middlesex bar, counting from the date 
of admission ; and, in point of age, he was the oldest, with 
one or two exceptions. He was elected representative to the 
state legislature in 1808, 1812, 1813, and 1814. In 1820, he 
was a member of the convention which revised the constitution 
of Massachusetts. He was a justice of the Court of Sessions, 
until that court was superseded by the appointment of county 
commissioners. 

He married, 7 November, 1802, Susan Hobbs, daughter of 
Ebenezer and Eunice (Spring) Hobbs, of Weston ; and the 
issue of this marriage was six sons and one daughter, of whom 
two sons only survived him. The oldest son, Augustus 
Henry Fiske, graduated at Harvard College in 1825, and is a. 
distinguished lawyer in Boston. Mr. Fiske's wife died 8 Janu- 
ary, 1831, aged 48 ; and he married, in 1832, Sophronia Hobbs, 
sister of his former wife, who survived him. 



1S60-01.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 343 

1800. — Rev. Charles Lowell died in Cambridge, Mass., 
20 January, 1861, aged 78 years. He was son of Hon. John 
(H.C. 1760) and Rebecca (Russell) Lowell, and was born in 
Boston, 15 August, 1782. His father was son of Rev. John 
Lowell (H.C. 1721) of Newbury, Mass., in which town he was 
born 17 June, 1743. He was a lawyer in Boston; was a 
member of the convention which framed the constitution of 
Massachusetts ; and was one of the founders of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1789, he was appointed, 
by Washington, judge of the District Court of Massachusetts. 
He died in Roxbury, Mass., 6 May, 1802, aged 58 years. 

The subject of this notice was a student at Andover Academy 
three or four years, under Abiel Abbot (H.C. 1787) and Mark 
Newman (D.C. 1793) ; and was afterwards placed under the 
instruction of Rev. Zedekiah Sawyer (H.C. 1771), in South '7%^ ) 
Bridgewater, where he completed his preparatory studies, and 
entered the sophomore class in 1797. After leaving college, he 
studied law one year with his elder brother, John Lowell, jun. 
(H.C. 1786), when he relinquished it for the study of theology. 
In the autumn of 1802, he went to Scotland, and entered the 
divinity-school of the Edinburgh University, where, among his 
fellow-students, was the renowned Sir David Brewster. He took 
a letter of introduction from Dr. James Currie, of Liverpool, 
to Dugald Stewart, whose lectures he attended, and whom he 
considered, from the gracefulness and eloquence of his delivery, 
the copiousness and beauty of his illustrations (often extem- 
poraneous), as the finest lecturer he had ever heard. He 
also attended the lectures of Hope and Murray in chem- 
istry, of Brown in rhetoric, and of others. In Edinburgh, 
he formed an intimate acquaintance and established a corre- 
spondence with Dr. Thomas Brown, the distinguished succes- 
sor, as he had been the pupil, of Dugald Stewart. He was 
well acquainted with Francis Jeffrey, the editor of the " Edin- 
burgh Review." In the summer of 1803, he made a pedes- 
trian tour through the Highlands of Scotland ; and, after spend- 
ing another winter in Edinburgh, he left that city for London 
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Karl Buchan to Ear] Stanhope, father of Lady Hester Stan- 
hope. He visited Porteus (bishop of London), Mr. Wilber- 
Porce, and other distinguished persons ; from all of whom he 
received great attentions. Wilberforce introduced him into a 
favorable place in the House of Commons, where he heard Pitt, 
Fox, Sheridan, and other distinguished men. Pitt, he said, 
had a sharp face and a very large nose. In his manner lie 
was very vehement, and by no means graceful ; constantly 
moving liis body forward, and beating the air in the same direc- 
tion with his right arm. Fox was more calm, and somewhat 
colloquial ; Sheridan, graceful in his manner, and speaking as 
if reciting from a book. He also Avitnessed the performances 
of John P. Kemble, and his sister, Mrs. Siddons. He attended 
on the preaching, among others, of John Newton, and the eccen- 
tric but eloquent Rowland Hill. 

From London, Dr. Lowell went to Paris at an eventful 
period, and had frequent opportunities of seeing Napoleon 
Bonaparte, who had just become emperor, and whose assump- 
tion of the imperial purple rendered him extremely unpopular. 
He was present at the first appearance of Napoleon after he 
was proclaimed emperor. He saw Talleyrand the day before 
? he died. After a tour through Holland and Switzerland, he 
returned to Scotland, and spent another winter in Edinburgh. 
In the spring of 1805, he left Edinburgh ; passed a little time 
with a maternal uncle at Clifton, near Bristol, Eng. ; preached 
at Bristol and Hackney ; and returned to his native country. 
On his return home, he studied divinity with Rev. Zedekiah 
Sanger, of South Bridgewater, and Rev. David Tappan (H.C. 
1771), professor of divinity at Cambridge. He was ordained 
over the West Church in Boston, 1 January, 1806. As a 
preacher, he was eminently popular ; and he was almost adored 
by his parishioners. Graceful as an orator, with a voice of 
uncommon sweetness, he preached with such an ardor and 
sincerity, that he seemed to his hearers to be almost divinely 
inspired. He continued sole pastor of the church for more 
than thirty-seven years. His health having become feeble, the 
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as his colleague, 1 March, 1837, where he still remains : but 
Dr. Lowell continued his pastoral connection with his church 
until his death ; although he was unable to officiate, except occa- 
sionally, for several years before his decease. Soon after his 
colleague was ordained, he revisited Europe. In Edinburgh, 
he met Dr. Brewster and others of his former fellow-students. 
He spent a day very agreeably with Dr. Chalmers at Burnt 
Island, two miles beyond the Frith of Forth. He was in Lon- 
don the first winter of his tour, and attended the lectures of 
Dr. Faraday, as he had those of his predecessor, Sir Hum- 
phry Davy, many years before ; attended the meetings of the 
Royal Society, and many other societies. He was a few months 
in Paris, where he saw M. Coquerel and other distinguished 
persons. He went to Belgium, Holland, Hamburg, Copen- 
hagen, where he met Prof. Rafn ; visited the falls of Trolhaetta, 
which are among the most remarkable in Europe. He con- 
tinued his tour to Pomerania, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Bava- 
ria, the Rhone, Baden Baden, Switzerland, Mont Blanc ; crossed 
Mont Cenis to Milan and Florence, and wintered at Rome. He 
was presented to the pope in the winter of 1839 ; was present 
at the fooleries of the carnival, and saw the magnificent spec- 
tacle of the illumination of St. Peter's. From Rome he went 
to Genoa, Naples, Sicily, Switzerland, Mount Etna, Malta, 
and Athens, where he was admitted a member of the Archaeo- 
logical Society of Athens at the Parthenon. Thence he went to 
Smyrna and Constantinople, and was at the latter at the time of 
the death of Sultan Mahmoud, — which was occasioned by 
delirium tremens, — whose funeral procession on the water was 
very imposing ; and was also there when his successor, Abdul 
Medjid, was proclaimed, whose installation was most splendid 
with barbaric pearl and gold, like some of the scenes in the 
"Arabian Nights." He visited Rhodes, Cyprus, Joppa, Jeru- 
salem, Bethlehem, Beirut, Damascus (where there is a street 
called "Strait," as in the New Testament), Alexandria, Cairo, 
the pyramids, the ruins of Baalbec, Thebes, and the tombs of 
Sesostris and the Pharaohs, the Red Sea, Trieste, Corfu, Vienna, 

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Nimes, mid Paris, after two years' absence. He saw the Em- 
peror Nicholas at Toplitz. 

The honorary degree <>f doctor of divinity vras conferred 
upon liim by Harvard College in 1823. He was also a member 

of the .Massachusetts Historical Society. He published seven- 
teen occasional sermons, and two <»r three small volumes. 

lie married, in October, 1806, Harriet B. Spence, of Ports- 
mouth, N. II. ; left five children, — three sons and two daugh- 
ters, — of whom three are well known to the literary public; 
viz., Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Robert Traill Spence 
Lowell (an Episcopal clergyman in New Jersey), and Mrs. S. 
R. Putnam. His wife died 30 March, 1850. 

In a sermon which he preached about forty years after his 
ordination, he says, " Is it amiss for me, in this connection, to 
say, that I am not conscious of having ever heard of sickness 
or trouble in any of your families, that I have not gone to do 
what became me as your minister to do ; or that I have ever 
known any considerable accession to the sources of your happi- 
ness, that I have not rejoiced with you in your joy, and endeav- 
ored to lead you to a grateful improvement of the goodness of 
God to you? One thing more I may claim to say, — that my 
pastoral visits have never been spent in idle gossiping. I have 
aimed to make them useful, however much I have failed to do 
so. A minister of religion, I have felt that it became me to 
teach religion, not only 'publicly,' but ' from house to house,' 
to 'watch for souls.' God forgive me that I have not been more 
faithful, as one who must give an account ! " 

1800. — Hon. Lemuel Shaw died in Boston, 30 March, 
1861, aged 80 years. He was son of Rev. Oakes (II. C. 
1758) and Susannah (Hayward) Shaw, and was born in 
Barnstable, Mass., 9 January, 1781. His father was born 
in Bridge water, Mass., 10 June, 173G ; was ordained over the 
First Church in Barnstable, 1 October, 1760; and died 11 Feb- 
ruary, 1807, aged 70. His mother was a native of Braintree, 
Mass. He was fitted for college principally by his father ; but 
studied a few months with Rev. William Salisbury (11. C. 
1795), of Braintree. On leaving college, in order to disen- 



1860-G1.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 347 

cumber his beloved father of the expenses of his education, 
he became usher at the Franklin (now the Brimmer) School, in 
Boston, of which the late Dr. Asa BuUard (D.C. 1793) was 
the principal, where he remained one year ; and was also during 
that time assistant-editor of the "Boston Gazette." He then 
studied law with David Everett (D.C. 1795), part of the time 
in Boston, and partly in Amherst, N.H. He was admitted to 
the bar in Hopkinton, N.H., in September, 1804; and after- 
wards in Plymouth, Mass., in November of the same year. He 
began the practice of law in Boston, in December, 1804, where 
he resided during the remainder of his life. In 1811, he deliv- 
ered a discourse before the Boston Humane Society ; and on the 
4th of July, 1815, an oration before the town-authorities of 
Boston. In this oration we find an explanation of the opposition 
of a powerful party among us to the last war with Great Britain, 
and a magnanimous and prompt concession that the contest has 
strengthened the bonds of our political union. He says, "We 
rejoice in the belief that the danger which we once feared from 
the ascendency of French principles is for ever removed. The 
secret spell which seemed to bind us in willing chains to the 
conqueror's car is for ever broken. No sophistry can again 
deceive us into a belief that the cause of Bonaparte is the cause 
of social rights, or create a momentary sympathy between the 
champion of despotism and the friends of civil liberty. One of 
the most alarming points of view in which the sincere opponents 
of the late war with England regarded the measure was, that it 
tended to cement and perpetuate that dangerous and disgraceful 
connection." 

In politics, Judge Shaw was a decided federalist, and was 
secretary of the Washington Benevolent Society. In 1811 he 
Avas elected a representative to the state legislature, was con- 
tinued in that office for four succeeding years, and was again 
elected in 1819. In 1820 he was a member of the convention 
for revising the constitution of the state. In 1821 and 1822, 
he was a member of the senate ; and again in 1828 and 1829. 
Before Boston became a city, he held various town offices ; was 
a member of the board of fire wards, a selectman, and one of the 



348 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1860-G1. 

school-committee. In l*2'2, while in the senate, he was chair- 
man <>t' the joint-committee of the legislature on a city charter 
for Boston ; embodied the same in the form of a report to the 
town, which was accepted, drafted the city charter; and wrote 
the act of incorporation establishing the city of Boston, granted 
by the state legislature, 23 February, L822; with the exception 
of the fourteenth section, relative to public theatres and exhibi- 
tions, and the act establishing a police-court ; which were drafted 
by lion. William Sullivan, and went into operation at the same 
time. In 1830, his friends wished to nominate him as a candi- 
date for representative to Congress ; but he would not accept the 
nomination. He was an active member of the Boston-Library 
Society, the Humane Society, the Massachusetts Historical 
Society, the Massachusetts Congregational Charitable Society, 
the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians 
in North America, and the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences. He was an overseer of Harvard College twelve years, 
and one of the corporation twenty-seven years. On the 23d of 
August, 1830, he was appointed chief-justice of the Supreme 
Court, in place of Isaac Parker (H.C. 1786) deceased. He 
held this office until the 31st of August, 1800, when he resigned 
it. During the whole period of his devotion to the state judi- 
ciary, he made records of the legal transactions under his 
superintendence, comprising upwards of fifty volumes of several 
hundred pages each. He was blessed with an extraordinarily 
large, powerful, and vigorous frame, which alone could have 
sustained the pressure of the unremitted and vast exertions of 
his powerful intellect for eighty years. His ample and warmly- 
feeling heart was quite as remarkable as his intellect. A more 
generous and social man never lived. His fund of mirthful 
and racy anecdote was inexhaustible. His honor, integrity, and 
Christian faith were never questioned. The honorary degree of 
doctor of laws was conferred upon him by Harvard College 
in 1831, and by Brown University in 1850. 

He ever felt a devoted veneration for his parents. His mother 
was a lady of more than ordinary powers of intellect ; and of 
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the centennial celebration at Barnstable, 3 September, 1839 : 
"Almost within sight of the place where we now are, still 
stands a modest spire, marking the spot where a beloved father 
stood to minister the holy word of truth and hope and salva- 
tion to a numerous, beloved, and attached people, for almost 
half a century. Pious, pure, simple-hearted, devoted to and 
beloved by his people, never shall I cease to venerate his mem- 
ory, or to love those who knew and loved him. I speak in the 
presence of some who knew him, and of many more, who, I 
doubt not, Avere taught to love and honor his memory as one 
of the earliest lessons of their childhood." 

Judge Shaw married, 6 January, 1818, Elizabeth, a daugh- 
ter of Josiah Knapp, a merchant of Boston ; and had by her two 
children, — John Oakes and Elizabeth Knapp. His wife died 
13 January, 1822, aged 36 years. He married for his second 
wife, in August, 1827, Hope, a daughter of Dr. Samuel Sav- 
age (H.C. 1766), of Barnstable; by whom he had two chil- 
dren, — Lemuel and Samuel Savage. The former graduated at 
Harvard College in 1849, and is a lawyer in Boston. His 
wife and all his children survive him. 

1800. — Benjamin Welles died in Boston, 21 July, 1860, 
aged 78 years. He was son of Samuel and Isabella (Pratt) 
Welles, and was born in Boston, 13 August, 1781. He studied 
for college in part at the Boston Latin School, under Master 
Samuel Hunt (H.C. 1765), and during one year with Rev. 
Thomas Prentiss, of Medfield, Mass. (H.C. 1766). On leav- 
ing college, he studied law for some time with Hon. Levi Lin- 
coln, of AVorcester, Mass. (H.C. 1772), and afterwards with 
Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, of Boston (H.C. 1783). In 1803, 
he went to England, and pursued his professional studies there. 
In 1804, he joined his classmate, Washington Allston, in Paris. 
A few months afterwards, they went together to Switzerland, 
and passed St. Gothard in their carriage, being the first persons 
who had traversed it. They went to Lombardy, and by Lake 
Como to Rome, passing through Bologna, where Allston exam- 
ined the great paintings of the Caracci and other great masters. 
They next went to Florence. The plague, prevailing in Leg- 



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horn, detained them nf Rome two months, during which time 
A.llston employed himself in painting. At Rome Mr. Welles 
staid about two months, and Mr. Allston a year. Mr. Welles 
returned to Boston in L804. In L807, he, in company with 
Stephen Higginson, William Parsons, Thomas II. Perkins, and 
others, engaged in an iron-mining company in Vergennes, Vt. 
In 1 <s 1 2? , Mr. Welles was appointed sole agent of the establish- 
ment, and took up his residence in Vergennes. He met Lieut. 
M'Donough at Burlington, in a small gunboat, strapping a 
bloek, and made an engagement to supply the iron and cannon- 
balls for the ships, which were all built at Vergennes for the 
lake-service; the iron-work amounting to $47,000. In 181(3, 
he became a partner with Hon. John Welles (II. C. 1782), who 
was his cousin, in the auxiliary house in Boston to the banking- 
house of Welles and Co., of Paris. This connection continued 
twenty-eight years, until the death of Samuel Welles (H.C. 
179G), which took place in Paris, 31 August, 1841. 

He married, 1 August, 1815, Mehitable Stoddard Sumner, 
eldest daughter of Gov. Increase Sumner (H.C. 1767) ; by 
whom he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Georgiana, and 
one son, Benjamin Samuel. His wife died 31 January, 1826 ; 
and he married, for his second wife, Susan Codman, daughter of 
William Codman, Esq., of New York, by whom he had one 
daughter, Susan ; who married, 14 January, 1856, Russell 
Sturgis, jun., of Boston. 

Mr. Welles was highly respected in the community as a gentle- 
man of the old school. He left a very large estate. 

1801. — Hon. Stephen Minot died in Haverhill, Mass., 
6 April, 1861, aged 84 years. He was son of Capt. Jonas 
and Mary (Hall) Minot, and was born in Concord, Mass., 28 
September, 1776. His father was son of Dea. Samuel and 
Sarah (Prescott) Minot ; was born in Concord, 25 April, 1735 ; 
and died in his native town, 20 March, 1813, aged 78 years. 
His mother was daughter of Rev. Willard Hall (H.C 1722), 
of Westford, Mass. She was born 30 July, 1738, and died 
3 November, 1792, aged 54 years. The subject of this notice 
was fitted for college at Westford Academy. He held a very 



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respectable rank in his class at college. Having selected 
law as a profession, he pursued his legal studies under the 
instruction of Hon. Samuel Dana, of Groton, Mass. On his 
admission to the bar, he settled in New Gloucester, Me., in which 
town and the town of Minot he practised about one year. He 
then removed to Haverhill, where he remained until his death, 
with the exception of a residence of three years in Methuen, 
where he owned a cotton-factory. He was a learned and accu- 
rate lawyer. His mind was clear in its perception, and logical 
in its conclusions. He was appointed, in 1811, judge of the 
Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and held the office until 1820, 
when the law which created that court was repealed. In 1824, 
he was appointed county-attorney for Essex ; which office he 
resigned in 1830. He was elected a representative to the state 
legislature in 1825, and would have been re-elected, but refused 
to be a candidate again. He was firm in purpose, exact and 
punctual in method and habit, of strict integrity, fearless in spirit, 
ever prompt to say or do whatever his judgment approved ; 
of great regularity and temperance in his manner of life ; in 
his private relations a true, affectionate, generous friend. His 
house was the abode of kindness and a generous hospitality. In 
conversation, he was genial, and rich in anecdote. For several 
years, having withdrawn from professional labors, he spent 
much of his time in mathematical studies, and in reading the 
Latin classics. He also possessed a strong mechanical talent, 
of which many instances remain ; among them an organ of fine 
musical powers, wholly the work of his own hands. He was a 
liberal supporter of the institution of religion, the ministrations 
of which he attended with great regularity. To him the Unita- 
rian faith was dear. His religious principles were firm, and sus- 
tained him in the trials of life and in the hour of death. " He 
set his house in order," and awaited with perfect composure the 
coming of the angel of death. 

" Calmly he gave his being up, and went 
To share the joys that wait a life well spent." 

Mr. Minot married, 9 November, 1809, Rebecca Trask, 
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November, 1832; and ho married, for hie second wife, Ellen P. 
Gardner, daughter of Hon. Stephen Partridge Gardner, of 
Bolton, Mass., who survived him. Ho left two children, — .Mrs. 
Pitman, of Reading, Mass.; and Charles Minot, Esq., super- 
intendent of the Erie Railroad, New York. The late George 
Minot, Esq., whd died 16 April, 1858, — a sound and al>le 
lawyer of Boston, author of "Minot's Digest," a work well 
known to the profession generally, — was his youngest son. 

1806. — Dr. Nathaniel Jacob died in Canandaigua, X.Y., 
3 February, IN (51, aged 78 years. He was the eldest son of 
Nathaniel and Lucy (Jacob) Jacob, and was born in Hanover, 
Mass., 16 July, 1782. His father, who was son of Dr. Joseph 
Jacob, was born in Hanover, 6 April, 1750 ; was an industrious 
farmer, of good natural abilities ; died 22 September, 1822, aged 
72 years. His mother, who was daughter of Joshua Jacob, 
was born in Hanover, 3 November, 1748 ; and died 20 March, 
1812, aged 63 years. The subject of this notice was fitted for 
college at Bridgewater Academy, under the tuition of Rev. 
Zedekiah Sanger, D.D. (H. C. 1771). After leaving college, 
he studied medicine, under the instruction of Dr. Nathan Smith, 
of Hanover, N.H. ; and settled in Canandaigua in 1810, where 
he was one of the early principals of the academy in the village, 
and practised as a physician. He was for some time professor 
of anatomy in the Fairfield Medical Institute in the state of 
New York. 

He was one of the principal founders of St. John's Epis- 
copal Church in Canandaigua. He was a citizen of much 
public spirit, and served as military surgeon on the frontier in 
the year 1812. At one time, he filled the office of trial-justice. 
He was a zealous and active member of the medical profession, 
but retired from practice many years before his death. 

He married, 8 March, 1812, Hannah Sanborn, of Canan- 
daigua. She was the first white inhabitant born (in 1789) in 
that village ; her parents being one of four families who emi- 
grated from Lyme, Conn. It took them four weeks to make 
the passage ; going in boats up the Hudson, the Mohawk, and 
on from one lake to another by creeks. By his wife he had ten 



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children, of whom only four are now living ; one in Buffalo, and 
the others in Canandaigua. His wife survived him. 

1808. — Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died in Baltimore, 13 
November, 1860, aged 72 years. He was born in Baltimore, 
20 September, 1788. He held a very high rank of scholarship 
in his class, and graduated with distinguished honors. He 
studied law, and settled in Baltimore. He had the ability to 
attain distinction in his profession ; but, as he inherited a 
very large fortune, he had no necessity to labor for a subsistence, 
and he virtually hid his talent in a napkin. He was not known 
beyond his immediate acquaintance. 

1809. — Henry Barney Smith died in Boston, 1 April, 
1861, agetl 71 years. He was son of Barney and Ann (Otis) 
Smith, and was born in Boston, 26 October, 1789. He was 
fitted for college by Rev. Nathaniel Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass. 
(H.C. 1789). After leaving college, he began the study of 
law in Litchfield under Judge Reeve, and afterwards studied 
with Hon. William Sullivan, of Boston (H.C. 1792). He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar ; but, having inherited an ample 
fortune, he did not pursue his profession. He was an inveterate 
democrat in politics ; and possessing strong mental powers, 
with great facility of address, he was one of the most eloquent 
speakers of his party at democratic caucuses in Faneuil Hall. 
He was for some time president of the Boston Debating Society. 
In 1822, he delivered an oration at a democratic celebration of 
the 4th of July, in Dorchester ; and another, at a similar cele- 
bration at the Marlborough Hotel in Boston, in 1824. On the 
4th of July, 1830, he delivered an oration before the Washington 
Society in Boston. It was said of him then, that "he is an 
uncompromising democrat, who has sketched the protean visage 
of aristocracy in thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." 

He retired from political life many years before his death, 
and devoted himself to the care of his large possessions. He 
was never married. 

1812. — George Edward Head died in Boston, 5 July, 
1861, aged 68 years. He was son of Joseph and Elizabeth 
(Frazier) Head, and was born in Boston, 25 February, 1793. 

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His father (who was son of Joseph Head, who came from Eng- 
land in the neighborhood of Norwich) was horn in Boston, 
1 January, 17(51 ; was for many years a highly respectable mer- 
chant; and was a member of the first board of aldermen, on 
the organization of the city-government, in 1*22. He was a 
director in the Massachusetts Bank from the year 1810 until 
his death. He died 30 December, 1836, aged 76 years. His 
mother, who was daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth ( White) 
Frazier, was born in Andover, Mass., 25 February, 1764; and 
died 2 October, 1798, aged 34 years. The subject of this notice 
began to fit for college at Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H. 
He subsequently pursued his studies under the instruction of 
Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, D.D., of Boston ; andVompleted 
them in the Boston Latin School, where a Franklin medal was 
awarded to him in 1807. After leaving college, he studied law 
at the law-school in Litchfield, Conn., under the instruction of 
Judges Reeve and Gould; and, on his admission to the bar, 
established himself in Boston. Born to affluence, he did not 
aim at eminence ; but, endowed by nature with a remarkably clear 
intellect and refined taste, he took pleasure in the development 
of his mind by the pursuit of studies which were in accordance 
with his fancy rather than the dry routine of his profession ; 
although, had necessity required his entire devotion to law, 
his talents would have enabled him to attain an eminent dis- 
tinction as a barrister. That he enjoyed the confidence and 
respect of the community was manifested by the stations to 
which he was elevated. He was elected a representative to the 
state legislature in 1836, 1837, 1847, and 1848. He was a 
member of the board of aldermen of Boston in 1846, 1847, and 
1848 ; and, in the last-named year, he was chosen a permanent- 
assessor ; which office he held, by successive elections, until his 
death, with the exception of the year 1855. He was at one 
time urged by his friends to allow the use of his name as a 
candidate for the mayoralty, but declined. In private life, 
his ready wit and genial humor, combined with high-toned 
morality, endeared him to his family and his numerous acquaint- 
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He married, 26 February, 1815, Hannah Catlin, daughter of 
Grove Catlin, of Litchfield, Conn., and great-grand-daughter of 
Joseph Wads worth, who hid the charter of Connecticut in the 
oak. The issue of this marriage was six children ; of whom four, 
— two sons and two daughters, — with their mother, survive. 
One of the sons, John Frazier Head, graduated at Yale College 
in 1840 ; and the other, George Edward Head, at Harvard 
,. College in 1852. Both became physicians. One of the daugh- 
ters is the wife of Bishop Eastburn, of Boston. 

1812. — Nathaniel Whitworth White died in Halifax, 
N.S., September, 1860, aged 67 years. He was son of Capt. 
Gideon and Deborah (Whitworth) White, and was born 
in Shelburne, N.S., 25 February, 1793. His father was a 
loyalist, joined the British army at the time of the Revolution, 
and rose to be a captain. He left the country, and settled at 
Shelburne, where he was appointed a judge. After the Revolu- 
tion, living in that little town, and not mingling with the 
Americans, he retained his bitter feelings. When the war of 
1812 broke out, he took his son away from college, only about 
two weeks before Commencement ; and the son was therefore not 
present when his degree was conferred upon him. He also took 
away with him another son, who was fitting to enter. He died in 
Shelburne in 1833, aged 82 years. He was born in Plymouth, 
and was a descendant of Peregrine White. Mr. White, after 
leaving college, settled as a lawyer in Halifax, where he prac- 
tised two-thirds of his life. He was afterwards master-in- 
ch ancery. He died of disease of the heart. He was never 
married. 

1813. — Orville Luther Holley died in Albany, N.Y., 
25 March, 186.1, aged 69 years. He was son of Luther and 
Sarah (Dakin) Holley, and was born in Salisbury, Conn., 
19 May, 1791. He was the eighth child of a family of nine, all 
of whom he survived. The eloquent Rev. Horace Holley, 
pastor of the Hollis-street church in Boston, was his brother. 
He was fitted for college probably at Greenfield Hill, in Fair- 
field, Conn. He held a high rank of scholarship in college, 
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uated with distinction. lie studied law in New York, and 
practised his profession successively in Hudson, Canandaigua, 
and the city of New York. His tastes led him, at an early 
period of his career, to journalism ; and he was successively editor 
of the " Anti-Masonic Magazine,'' published in New York, the 
" Troy Sentinel," the " Ontario Repository," and the " Albany 
Daily Advertiser." He superintended the publication of the 
"New-York State Register" for several years. In 1853,, 
the New-York legislature authorized the purchase of the cor- 
respondence and other papers of George Clinton, the first 
governor of that state, then on deposit in the office of the secre- 
tary of state ; and appropriated the sum of five hundred dollars 
for arranging, indexing, binding, and lettering the same. The 
labor of indexing and arranging these manuscripts was intrust- 
ed principally to Mr. Holley, by whom the work was very 
judiciously and thoroughly performed under the direction of the 
library-committee. The collection numbered twenty-three vol- 
umes of folio size. In January, 1838, under the first admin- 
istration of Gov. Seward, Mr. Holley was chosen surveyor- 
general of the state of New York; and, during the last ten years . 
of his life, he was occupied in duties connected with the depart- 
ment of the secretary of state : but, for the last twenty years, 
severe bodily infirmities compelled him to forego, to a great ex- 
tent, the honors of public position. His great solace during the 
years of infirmity were his literary studies, by which he was most 
distinguished; and his "Life of Benjamin Franklin," written 
during a period of severe suffering, is not excelled as a chaste 
and comprehensive biography. His acquirements in history 
were equalled by few men. He was a close student of medical 
science. Few clergymen of eminence were so .well versed in 
theology, while his acquaintance with English polite literature 
was exhaustive. His conversation, for terseness, variety, and 
finish, was most eminent. The range of his thoughts was wide, 
his mind catholic and genial, his manners full of courtesy 
and grace. He left the impression of one, who, through excess 
of sensibility or fastidiousness of taste, has never marshalled 
his powers to any enterprise fully worthy of them. The won- 



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der was, that a man of such a stamp and presence, so evidently- 
made up of every creature's best, was not a great poet, 
philosopher, or saint : for he looked fully capable of being 
either. 

Mr. Holley belonged to a family which has largely contrib- 
uted to enlighten our American superstition. Two of his 
brothers, Horace and Myron, were eminent propagandists of 
Liberal Christianity, but neither was superior to him in intelli- 
gence, zeal, and devotion to the work of emancipating the people 
from spiritual despotism. It was one of the chief desires of his 
later years to establish a strong liberal church in the capital city 
of New York. He gave himself freely to the work of organ- 
izing such a movement. His efforts, more than any thing, 
secured the re-establishment of the drooping church in Albany. 
For several years, he was clerk of the society, superintendent 
of the sunday-school, often conducted public worship, and, it 
is said, paid yearly one-eighth of his entire income into its 
treasury. 

Mr. Holley was never married; and, during his later years, 
lived what would be called a lonely life ; but it was the best for 
the peculiar cast of mind in his condition of health. 

1815. — Hon. Ezra Hunt, of Bowling Green, Mo., died 
in Troy, Lincoln county, in that State, 19 September, 1860, 
aged 70 years. He was in attendance upon the Circuit Court, 
in session there, in his usual health. Having spoken on a case 
in his charge in the afternoon, and having eaten his supper 
after the adjournment of the court, he said he was not very 
well, went to a fire in a retired room at his lodgings, was con- 
versing with a lady with apparent cheerfulness, when he sud- 
denly appeared to be falling from his chair. He was caught, 
and physicians were called, who found that the vital spark had 
fled, and he ceased to live. He was the ninth and youngest son 
of Daniel and Mary (Phillips) Hunt, and was born in Milford, 
Mass., 7 April, 1790. He was a descendant of the sixth gene- 
ration from "William Hunt, one of the original settlers of Con- 
cord, Mass. He was fitted for college at Leicester Academy; 
of which Luther Willson (W.C. 1807), afterwards minister 



358 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [180<Mil. 

of Petersham, Mass., was preceptor. He was distinguished 
for his knowledge of mathematics and the exact sciences; and 
at Commencement, when he graduated, the subject assigneu to 
him was "The Study of the Mathematics." Immediately after 
leaving college, he was appointed preceptor of Leicester Acad- 
emy ; where he remained until the autumn of 1817, when he 
w r ent to Cambridge for the purpose of studying divinity. He 
remained there, with the exception of four months devoted to 
keeping school in Lincoln, Mass., until May, 1818; when he 
went to Pulaski, West Tenn., and took charge of an academy 
on a salary of seven hundred dollars per annum. He was 
invited to remain another year, with a salary of twelve hun- 
dred dollars, but declined. While in charge of the academy 
in Pulaski, he pursued the study of the law, under the direc- 
tion of the late Judge William C. Carr; and, at the end of one 
year, obtained a license to practise in the states of Missouri 
and Illinois. He practised three years in the town of Louisi- 
ana, in Missouri. From this place, he removed to St. Charles 
in the same state. 

In 1831, he removed to Bowling Green, Pike county, Mo. 
He was the first lawyer that ever settled in that county ; and it 
is stated that he attended every term of the Criminal Court in 
the county, either as lawyer or judge, from the territorial 
days of 1819 until his death. He was appointed, 6 January, 
1836, judge of the Circuit Court for that judicial district, 
with a salary of a thousand dollars per annum ; and discharged 
the duties of the office with ability and impartiality, to the general 
satisfaction of the people of the circuit. He decided questions 
of law, but never addressed juries. When he made any com- 
munication to the jury, it was in writing. In the convention 
called to revise the constitution of the state of Missouri, in 1845, 
he was a member for Pike and Ralls counties, composing a dis- 
trict ; and acted as chairman of the judiciary committee in that 
body. By a change in the constitution of Missouri, in 1849, 
the term of offices of the judges was limited to eight years ; and, 
simultaneously with the limitation, new judges were appointed 
all over the state. Judge Hunt, who had held the office many 



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years, was superseded by a man, who, if he had no other claim, 
could allege most vigorous party services. Judge Hunt was a 
diligent student all his life ; and, having accumulated one of the 
largest and best private libraries' in the state of Missouri, had 
with its use, aided by a discriminating, logical mind, made 
himself a learned and sound lawyer, as well as a ripe scholar in 
general literature ; and in all the relations of his life, both public 
and private, he was faithful, just, and true. 

In 1830, he visited Massachusetts ; and, on the 18th of May 
in that year, he married, in Connecticut, Maria E. Pettibone, 
then sixteen years old, daughter of the late Eufus Pettibone 
(W.C. 1805), judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. Judge 
Pettibone married a New- York lady, and his daughter Maria 
was born in New York. The issue of this marriage was seven 
children ; of whom four, with their mother, survived him. 

1815. — Hon. Gayton Pickman Osgood died in North 
Andover, Mass., 26 June, 1861, aged 64 years, lacking eight 
days. He was son of Isaac and Sally (Pickman) Osgood, and 
was born in Salem, Mass., 4 July, 1797 ; but removed with his 
parents in his infancy to North Andover, which was ever after- 
wards his place of abode. His father was for some time clerk 
of the courts for the county of Essex. His mother was daughter 
of Col. Benjamin Pickman (H.C. 1759), and sister of Col. Ben- 
jamin Pickman (H.C. 1784), of Salem. He was well fitted 
for college at the Franklin Academy in North Andover. He 
attained a high rank of scholarship in his class while in college. 
After graduating, he studied law with Benjamin Merrill, of Salem 
(H.C. 1804). He began the practice of law in Salem, but in 
1819 removed to North Andover, and left the profession. Pos- 
sessed of ample property, he lived a retired life. He enjoyed 
his library, a very valuable one, especially in classical literature, 
which continued to hold a primary place in his studies to the 
close of his life. He was formerly known as a prominent politi- 
cian of the democratic school. He was the leading opponent of 
Caleb Cushing in his early competition for the office of repre- 
sentative to Congress, — a contest long to be remembered, — and 
was elected for one term, 1833—35. In 1844, he was a candi- 



360 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [18G0-61. 

date for elector-at-large in Massachusetts of President of the 
LTnited States; but was not elected, having been nominated by 
the democratic party. lie was several times eleeted a represi n- 
tativc to the legislature : the 1:1st time, however, he refused to 
take his seat, which, in consequence, remained vacant for the 
entire session. lie sought the pleasures of home, and it was 
only at the earnest solicitation of friends that he allowed the use 
of his name as a candidate for office. His range of study and 
leading was very extensive ; and his political and miscellaneous 
lectures evince much thought and great research, and abound 
with apt illustrations and eloquent appeals. 

" From his cradle 
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one." 

He was benevolent, sensible, and intelligent ; and united mod- 
esty with merit to a degree as unusual as it is amiable. 

He married, 24 March, 1859, Mary Farnham, of North 
Andover, but had no children. His wife survives him. 

1822. — Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch died in Brook- 
line, Mass., 16 April, 1861, aged 56 years. He was the eldest 
son of Nathaniel and Mary (Ingersoll) Bowditch, and was 
born in Salem, Mass., 17 January, 1805. His father, the 
eminent mathematician of world-wide fame, was born in Salem, 
26 March, 1773 ; and died in Boston, 16 March, 1838, aged 65 
years. The subject of this notice was fitted for college in Salem 
by Abiel Chandler (H.C. 1806). He graduated with high 
honors, although the youngest in his class. He studied law 
under the instruction of Hon. William Prescott (H.C. 1783) 
and Hon. Franklin Dexter (H.C. 1812), and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1825. A few years afterwards, he relin- 
quished the practice of law, and devoted himself to business 
as a conveyancer and examiner of titles of real estate ; in which 
he enjoyed a large and lucrative employment, and won the 
esteem of all with whom he had intercourse, by the suavity 
of his manners, and his noble and generous character. He 
married, 23 April, 1835, Elizabeth B., eldest daughter of 
Ebenezer Francis, well known as the wealthiest gentleman of 



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Boston. For some years Mr. Bowditch was in the enjoyment 
of a very large income, which he distributed in a thousand 
nameless rills of beneficence for the relief of suffering humanity. 
Mr. Francis died 21 September, 1858; and, soon after that 
event, Mr. Bowditch retired from business, and took up his 
residence in Brookline. Soon afterwards, he was attacked by 
a terrible and incurable disease, — a cancerous affection in one 
of his this:h-bones ; and for eighteen months he was wasting 
away under this painful disorder, unable to move, except slightly 
to raise his head in the bed. But gently, patiently, nobly, was 
the discipline borne. To go into his sick-chamber was like 
going into a chapel ; and such dews fell upon the heart there 
as fall upon the lilies of heaven. You saw the sufferer upon his 
couch, propped up by pillows, pale and worn ; but *his smile 
was sweet, his greeting was cordial, his interest in life was un- 
abated. Books, the society of his family, intercourse with his 
friends, filled up his days. Slowly and gradually the last hour 
came, and now "Goodness and he fill up one monument." 

His wife survives him, with four children, — one son and 
three daughters. 

1822. — Rev. Nathaniel Gage died in Cambridge, Mass., 
7 May, 1861, aged sixty years. He was son of Nathaniel and 
Betsey (Kimball) Gage, and was born in North Andover, on 
the line between North Andover and Boxford, Mass., 16 July, 
1800. His father was a farmer ; and Nathaniel worked on the 
farm while a boy, attending public schools until he was about 
sixteen years of age. His father determined that one of his 
sons should go to college. The younger son, Daniel, declined, 
and chance fell to Nathaniel ; although his father regretted it, as 
he was so apt at farming. He began to fit for college at Brad- 
ford Academy, under Benjamin Greenleaf (D.C. 1813) ; and 
finished his pi'eparatory studies under the instruction of Rev. 
Peter Eaton (H.C. 1787), of Boxford, whose meeting the 
family attended. Before he entered college, he taught school 
in Boxford, pursuing at the same time his studies with great 
perseverance. He entered, at the age of seventeen, without 

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conditions. While in college, he taught school every winter, 
successively in Newton, G-offstown, X . 1 1 . , Wayland, and Bol- 
ton. In summer vacations, he worked on the farm at home, 
lie ninked very high in scholarship while in college. He had 
the oration on class-day, the salutatory oration at Commence- 
ment, and the valedictory oration when he took his second 
degree. After graduating, he pursued his theological studies at 
the Divinity School in Cambridge ; during a part of the time, 
teaching school in Cambridgeport. In 1825, he was appointed 
tutor in mathematics in college, and held the office one year. 
He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Nashua, 
N.H., 27 June, 1827, where he remained seven years. He 
was dismissed in 1834 ; and immediately went to Haverhill, 
Mass., where he was installed 2 July of the same year. There 
he remained seven years. Thence he went to Petersham, where 
he was installed 6 October, 1841, and remained there four 
years. From Petersham he Avent to Lancaster, where, for 
about one year, he supplied the pulpit of Rev. Edmund Hamil- 
ton Sears (U.C. 1834), Avho was in ill health. Then he had a 
call at Westborough, where he went in the spring of 1851, and 
remained six years without being installed. In April, 1857, 
he removed to Cambridge ; and in the summer of that year he 
began to preach in Ashby, where he continued his ministrations 
as long as he lived, going there on Saturdays, spending two 
Sundays and the intervening week, then returning to his home 
in Cambridge. On the 18th of April, 1861, while on his way 
from Cambridge for Boston on foot, he was attacked with apo- 
plexy. He was carried home, where he lingered until the 7th 
of May, when he died. 

Mr. Gage was a man of a most genial and kindly spirit, a 
true and devoted friend, a conscientious and self-sacrificing 
Christian. Many have wondered that he had not risen to 
higher eminence in the churchy It is surprising that he should 
have escaped reverses, and maintained so respectable and uni- 
form a standing, with his guiltless nature and sensitive heart. 

" Of manners gentle, and affections mild, 
In wit a man, simplicity a child." 



1860-61.] OF HARVAED COLLEGE. 3G3 

His heart was warm and sympathetic, joyous in prosperity, 
but in seasons of adversity overflowing with the tenderest sensi- 
bility. In private life, he was most interesting and genial. 
Possessing no small share of wit, always cheerful and buoyant, 
he was the life of the social circle ; tender and loving, he was 
the idol of his home. 

He published a Sermon, delivered at the installation of Rev. 
A. Duniont Jones over the Congregational Church in Wilton, 
N.H., January 1, 1834; 8vo ; Nashua, N.H., 1834; pp. 32. 
An Address before the Essex Agricultural Society at Topsfield, 
September 27, 1837, at the Annual Cattle Show; 8vo ; Sa- 
lem, 1838 ; pp. 27. A Discourse delivered in Windham, 
N.H., 5 November, 1834, at the Interment of Rev. Jacob 
Abbot and Capt. John Dinsmore, who were droAvned 2 Novem- 
ber ; Nashua, N.H., 1835; 8vo, pp. 24. An Address on 
Intemperance, pronounced at Nashua Village, N.H., April 

4, 1829; published by request; 8vo. Dunstable, N.H., pp. 
21. Sons and Daughters of the Times ; a Sermon deliv- 
ered in Haverhill, Mass., on Fast Day, April 5, 1838. 
Haverhill ; pp. 28. 

He married, 1 August, 1827, Abby Richardson, daughter 
of Hon. Stephen Partridge and Achsah (Moore) Gardner, of 
Bolton. She was the fourth of eight daughters, four of whom 
became widows within four years. Their children were, — 
1. Ellen Gardner, born 9 July, 1828, at Nashua; married, 5 
October, 1854, Rev. Charles Henry Wheeler (Bowd. C. 1847), 
of South Danvers. 2. Abby, born February, 1831 ; died 1832, 
aged 17 months. 3. Louisa Charlotte, born 18 October, 1833, 
at Nashua; married, 20 September, 1855, Franklin, son of 
Augustus and Harriet (Child) Perrin, born 9 August, 1830, 
in Boston. 4. Nathaniel, born 1835 ; died November, 1839. 

5. Minot Gardner, born 11 September, 1841 ; graduated at 
Harvard College in 1861. 

1822. — Hon. Francis Osborx Watts died in Roxbury, 
Mass., 28 September, 1860, aged 57 years. He was son of 
Francis and Mehitable (Lord) Watts, and was born in Kenne- 
bunk, Me., 9 August, 1803. He was great-grandson of Judge 



36-4 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1860-G1. 

Samuel Watts, of Chelsea, Mass., and grandson of Dr. Edward 
Watts, of Portland, Me. His lather was a merchant in Kenne- 

lniuk : and, on his removal to Boston, he engaged in business, 
as ;i wholesale grocer, on Long Wharf, which he continued 

about twelve years. In 1832, lie was elected president of the 
Atlantic Insurance Company ; which office he held until 1844, 
when he resigned it on account of ill health. He died 6 April, 
1846. His mother was a devout Christian woman, who died 
when he was little more than nine years old. In 1815, at the 
age of twelve years, he entered Thornton Academy in Saco, 
Me., where, under the instruction of Mr. Ezra Haskell (Y.C. 
1811), he pursued his preparatory studies until 1818, when he 
removed, with his father, to Boston, and completed his studies 
at Mr. Gideon French Thayer's school, in Chauncy Place. 
Immediately after leaving college, he began the study of law in 
the office of Mr. Augustus Peabody, in Boston (D.C. 1803) ; 
where, with the exception of a single intervening term at the 
law school in Northampton, under Judge Samuel Howe (W.C. 
1804), he completed his legal studies; and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in October, 1825, at a little more than 
twenty-two years of age. But, though so young, his abilities 
and attainments and general character were such, that he Mas 
immediately received as a law-partner by Mr. Peabody, with 
whom he continued six years. A year later, he formed a part- 
nership with Mr. William Joseph Hubbard (Y.C. 1820) ; and, 
many years afterwards, he records of both his partners, "I be- 
lieve I may say I have never had an unpleasant word with either 
of them." Some few years before his death, he practised in 
connection with Owen Glendour Peabody (D.C. 1842), the 
son of his former partner. From 1826 until near the close 
of 1840, he was a worshipper, and, for most of that time, a 
communicant, in the Unitarian church : but in the spring of 
1841, having changed his religious views, he joined the Protes- 
tant Episcopal church ; to which religious faith he ever after- 
wards adhered. He was esteemed by his acquaintances as a 
singularly faultless man ; commanding respect and confidence 
by the strength of his mind, the respectability of his attain- 



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ments, the soundness of his judgment, the modesty of his self- 
estimation, the uprightness of his dealings, the sweetness of his 
temper, and the amenity of his manners. As a lawyer, he held 
a highly respectable rank, and was greatly esteemed by his pro- 
fessional associates. In 1846, he was elected a senator from 
the Suffolk district to the state legislature ; where he distin- 
guished himself as an able debater, and a most valuable mem- 
ber of the senatorial board. 

He married, 1 May, 1826, Caroline Goddard, born 25 
February, 1804, daughter of Thacher and Lucy Goddard, of 
Boston, by whom he had seven children, — three sons and four 
daughters ; of whom two daughters only survive. His wife 
died 25 July, 1850, aged 44 years and 5 months. He married 
for his second wife, 21 January, 1854, Caroline Keith Brad- 
bury, daughter of Charles Bradbury, of Boston, who survives 
him ; but has had no children. 

1823. — Edward Vernon Childe died in Paris, France, 
23 January, 1861, aged 56 years. He was son of David Weld 
and Abigail (Dorr) Child, and was born in Boston, 13 March, 
1804. His name was originally Ebenezer Dorr Child, and 
was changed, by an act of the legislature, 8 February, 1823. 
His father was a very respectable merchant, and died in Bos- 
ton, 3 February, 1830, aged 58 years. The subject of this 
notice was fitted for college at the Boston public Latin School. 
After leaving college, he studied law in the office of Hon. 
Daniel Webster (D.C. 1801). He did not, however, pursue 
the profession. On the death of his father, he inherited an 
ample fortune, which was subsequently very much increased by 
his inheriting also the estate of a deceased brother. In 1828, 
he went to Europe, where he remained about two years ; when 
he returned. About the year 1834, he again went to Europe ; 
resided several years in Italy and Germany. He then became a 
permanent resident in Paris, and devoted himself to literature. 
He was a regular correspondent of the " London Times " for 
nearly eleven years. His first letter to the " Times " was dated 
Paris, 3 November, 1845 ; and the last, 7 June, 1856. Pie 
was also correspondent of the " New-York Courier and En- 



366 NECKOLOGY OF ALUMNI [1860-61. 

quirer" from 17 October, 1846, to 4 December, 1*56. Both 
these series of Letters he had printed in 1*57, in a duodecimo 
volume making 259 pages, for private circulation. 

He married, in 1831, Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen. Henry 
Lee, of Virginia. He left three children, — one son and 
two daughters: viz., Edward Lee Childe, residing in Paris; 
Florence, the elder daughter, married to Count Henry Soltyk, 
of Cracow, Austrian Poland; Mary, the younger, married 
Robert Gilmor Hoffman, of Baltimore, Md. I lis wife died in 
Paris, 24 June, 1856. 

1823. — Joseph Henry Farley died in Pittsfield, Mass., 
4 January, 1861, aged 55 years. He was the fourth son of 
Eben and Lydia (Coolidge) Farley, and was born in Boston, 
7 September, 1805. His father was born in Ipswich, Mass., 24 
March, 1775 ; was a merchant in Boston, of the firm of Swett 
and Farley ; and died 27 September, 1826, aged 51 years. 
His mother was born in Watertown, Mass., 18 March, 1776; 
and died 14 November, 1813, aged 37 years. The subject of 
this notice was fitted for college at Phillips Academy in Exeter, 
N.H. After graduating, he engaged in mercantile business, 
and settled in New-York city ; having become a member of the 
firm of Felix M. Walton and Co., importers of dry goods. 
The house became insolvent ; and Mr. Farley subsequently en- 
tered into partnership with Calvin Angier, of New York, in the 
sale of boots and shoes. Here he was again unfortunate. He 
left New York, and went to Lenox, Mass., where he resided 
with a younger brother ; but he fell into a morbid and depressed 
state of mind, which the kindness of his friends could not re- 
store, but resulted in mental alienation, during which he termi- 
nated his life by his own hand, tie was never married. 

1823. — Rev. James Teask Woodbury died in Milford, 
Mass., 16 January, 1861, aged 57 years. He was son of Hon. 
Peter and Mary (Woodbury) Woodbury, and was born in 
Francestown, N.H., 9 May, 1803. His father was born in 
Beverly, Mass., in 1767, and removed to New Hampshire, 
where he engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits ; was 
fifteen years a representative, and two years a senator, in the 



1860-G1.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 3G7 

state legislature. He died in 1834. His mother was daughter 
of James Woodbury, who was born in Beverly, but removed 
to Mount Vernon, N.H., in 1782. He was a subaltern in 
Col. Robert Rogers's re<?iment of rangers ; and was near 
Wolfe when he fell at the storming of Quebec. The subject 
of this notice was a brother of the late Hon. Levi Woodbury 
(D.C. 1809), who was governor of New Hampshire, senator 
in congress, secretary of the navy, and afterwards secretary of 
the treasury under President Jackson, and associate-justice of 
the Supreme Court of the United States. He began to fit 
for college at the academy in Francestown, N.H., and com- 
pleted his preparatory studies at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass. After leaving college, he studied law with his dis- 
tinguished brother Levi, in Portsmouth, N.H. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar of his native state in 1826, and at once opened 
an office for the practice of law in Bath, N.H. Having a 
thorough education, possessing talents of a high order, with an 
unblemished character, strong physical and intellectual powers, 
he had every prospect of becoming eminent in his profession. 

But, in the midst of his bright prospects of future eminence, 
his ambition was suddenly checked, and his whole course of life 
changed. Under the preaching of Rev. David Sutherland, of 
Bath, where he resided, he became a sincere convert to the 
Christian faith, to the advocacy of which he devoted the rest of 
his life. After a lono- struggle with himself, and contrarv to 
the advice of many friends, he relinquished his profession as a 
lawyer, and placed himself under the instruction of Rev. Lyman 
Beecher, D.D. (Y.C. 1797), of Boston, as a student of divin- 
ity. After completing his course of study, he soon had an invi- 
tation to settle as pastor of the church in Acton, Mass., and was 
ordained 29 August, 1829, where he continued pastor for 
twenty-two years. In the spring of 1852, at his own request, 
he was dismissed from the church ; and, on the 15th of July the 
same year, was installed pastor of the First Church in Milford, 
Mass., where he continued to discharge his ministerial duties 
until his death. He was elected representative to the state legis- 
lature from Acton in 1851 and 1852. He was first elected with 



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special reference to his making an appeal to the state for aid 
in the erection of a monument, in the town of Acton, to the 
memory of (apt. Isaac Davis, who fell at the old North Con- 
cord Bridge, 1!' April, 1775. When the order for the appro- 
priation came up for consideration, it found little favor : indeed, 
it was said thai scarce five men could be found who favored its 
passage. On the 5th of February, 1852, he made a speech which 
occupied two hours in delivery. It was the only time he ever 
addressed a legislative assembly. Every eye was riveted upon 
him, as he proceeded in his peculiar graphic description of the 
opening scenes of the revolution, and held up in his hands the 
trappings that were worn by the hero on that eventful day, 
pierced as they were by the bullets of the invader. The excite- 
ment was intense ; the cause w T as gained ; the appropriation was 
voted by a large majority. 

Mr. Woodbury possessed a genial nature, with fine social 
feelings, which endeared him to a large circle of friends. His 
visits to his people were frequent and interesting. As a preach- 
er of the gospel, he was devoted to his work ; and the degree of 
success which attended his ministerial labors testifies to his faith- 
fulness as a pastor. 

He married, in 1826, Augusta Porter, a daughter of the late 
Jonathan Porter, of Medford, Mass. He left three children, — 
Augusta, married to George G. Parker, counsellor-at-law in 
Milford ; George Porter, married, and resides in Milford ; 
Charlotte Elizabeth, 18 years of age. His wife survived him. 

1829. — James Dutton Russell died in Brighton (Long- 
wood village), 10 June, 1861, aged 51 years. His name was 
originally James Russell Dutton ; and was changed by act of the 
legislature, 21 February, 1820. He was son of Hon. Warren 
(Y.C. 1797) and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, and was 
born in Boston, 7 January, 1810. He was fitted for college in 
the Boston Latin School. Immediately after graduating, he 
entered the Law School in Cambridge, where he remained 
somewhat more than a year ; and then entered as a student the 
office of Hon. Franklin Dexter, of Boston (H.C. 1812). In 
October, 1832, he was admitted in Boston as attornev of the 



1860-61.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 369 

Court of Common Pleas, and opened an office at No. 5, Court 
Street. At this time he was an ensign in the Boston Light 
Infantry. In 1833, he visited Europe. Possessing an ample 
competence, he did not pursue his profession as a means of 
living. About ten years before his death, he made Longwood 
his permanent residence. 

He married, 4 November, 1835, Helen Hooper, daughter of 
William Hooper, Esq., of Marblehead. The issue of this mar- 
riage was four children, — two sons and two daughters, — all 
of whom are living. Their mother died 27 February, 1848, at 
the age of 31 years. 

1831. — Moses Hagar died in Philadelphia, 18 November, 
1860, aged 56 years. He was the eldest son of Elijah and 
Mary (Jones) Hagar, and was born in Westminster, Mass., 
9 September, 1804. His father died 27 April, 1841, aged 83 
years and 6 months. He pursued his studies, preparatory to 
entering college, at Stow, Mass., New Ipswich, N.H., Leices- 
ter and New Salem, Mass. ; also with Dr. John White, in 
Westminster. After graduating, he began the study of law ; 
but was not, probably, admitted to the bar. He was at 
one time clerk of court in Philadelphia ; but, for some time 
previous to his death, he held an agency in one of the various 
railroad-offices in that city. He was never married. 

1831. — Joseph Ricketson Williams died in Constantine, 
Mich., 15 June, 1861, aged 52 years. He was the oldest son 
of Capt. Richard and Rebecca (Smith) Williams, and was 
born in Taunton, Mass., 14 November, 1808; but removed 
soon after his birth, with his parents, to New Bedford. His 
father was a highly respectable shipmaster ; and, after his retire- 
ment from the sea, held for many years the office of postmaster 
of New Bedford. At the age of sixteen years, the subject of 
this notice was apprenticed in a counting-room in Boston. He 
remained there two years ; but, disliking a mercantile life, he 
relinquished his place, with the intention of obtaining a col- 
legiate education. He pursued his preparatory studies at Sand- 
wich Academy, under the instruction of Luther Barker Lincoln 
(H.C. 1822). He gained a high rank of scholarship in his 

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class, and graduated with distinguished honors, lie taught 
school in his sophomore year in Concord, Mass., and in his 
senior year in Nbrthborough, Mass. After leaving college, he 
studied law in the office of lion. John Davis, of Worcester, 
(Y.C. 1812), was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of 
his profession in New Bedford. Soon afterwards, Hon. John 
H. Clifford, of New Bedford, offered him a partnership in a 
lucrative practice, which he declined on account of his health. 
He Mas always a student ; and as a writer, if he had addressed 
himself persistently to any department of letters, would have 
been distinguished. He was at one period an acceptable con- 
tributor to the " North- American Review." An admirable and 
exhaustive article upon the whale-fishery appeared in its pages, 
prepared by him while he was in Mr. Clifford's office. If he 
had devoted himself resolutely to his profession, he would have 
obtained a high position in it. The precarious state of his 
health from the time of his admission to the bar, and the neces- 
sity which he thought it impressed upon him for a more out-of- 
door life, and in a different climate, only prevented him from 
being one of the men of mark in his native state, and return- 
ing in a larger measure to his Alma Mater the* fruits of her 
planting. In 1835, he relinquished his profession, — having 
accepted the agency of an extensive New-England company for 
investments in Western lands, — and went to Toledo, O. The 
place, then small, offered few inducements, beyond the opportu- 
nity for speculation in city property, in which Mr. Williams 
successfully engaged. He built the American Hotel in 1836, 
and remained there until 1839, when he removed to Constan- 
tine, Mich. He there eno-aged in the milling business, built 
a fine mill, and was for several years very successful in this 
vocation. Between the years 1837 and 1853, he became iden- 
tified with the political interests of the state of Michigan. He 
was elected a member of the constitutional convention of Michi- 
gan, lie was twice a candidate for United-States senator 
against Gen. Cass, before the organization of the republican 
party, and was three times a whig candidate for Congress in 
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greatly in the minority, he came within a small vote of an 
election. In 1853 he purchased the "Toledo-Blade" establish- 
ment, and returned to that city. Under his management, the 
"Blade" became, from the first, the advocate of republican prin- 
ciples, and did more to inaugurate the republican party in 
Northern Ohio than all the other papers in the state. Mr. 
Williams was in failing health when he assumed the manage- 
ment of the "Blade ;" and, though eminently qualified by capa- 
city and taste for the occupation, it was one that did not, as he 
anticipated, favor his disease. After an editorial career of three 
years, he sold the paper to its present proprietors, to occupy the 
position, at the hands of the Michigan legislature, of president 
of the Agricultural College of Michigan. This institution, 
located at Lansing, was but just incorporated ; and, being 
unlike any institution in the country, it was, of course, an ex- 
periment. Mr. Williams was deemed the most suitable person 
to inaugurate it, by the character and ability of his writings 
and addresses upon the subjects of agriculture. His failing 
health was the impediment in the way of success ; and, after a 
year of laborious exertion, he was obliged to abandon this posi- 
tion, and seek relief at Havana and Bermuda. He returned 
from the South in the spring of 1860, considerably improved, 
and was elected the following fall a member of the senate of 
Michigan, which body did him the honor to elect him their 
president ; an office for which his talents eminently qualified 
him. By the resignation of the lieutenant-governor, Hon. 
James Birney, Mr. Williams became acting lieutenant-governor 
of the state ; which office he held at the time of his death . 

He married, in Buffalo, N. Y., 20 May, 1844, Sarah Row- 
land* Langdon, daughter of John and Charlotte Langdon, and a 
grand-niece of Gov. John Langdon, of New Hampshire ; who, 
with three daughters, survived him. 

1832. — Dr. Joseph James Lloyd Whittemore died in 
Paris, France, 14 October, 1860, aged 49 years, lacking one 
day. He was the only child of Capt. Isaac and Betsey (Tower) 
Whittemore, and was born in Scituate, Mass., 15 October, 
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372 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1860-61. 

room of Bordman and Pope, of Boston. On coming of age, 
he WOB first employed as supercargo in one of their ships then 
trading on the north-west coast. Afterwards he had com- 
mand of several of their ships in the aatne trade until he died in 
181< s , and was buried on Madison's Island, in the Pacific 
Ocean. He had acquired a handsome property, the fruit of his 
maritime industry, which his young son inherited. His mother 
was daughter of Matthew Tower, of Scituate. Placed under 
the guardianship of the late Dr. Cushing Otis (II. C. 1789), of 
his native town, he was liberally provided for, and his education 
attended to with all wisdom, discretion, and the most paternal 
kindness. He was fitted for college at the Derby Academy in 
Hingham, Mass. His ample resources pecuniarily, and his 
large genial and social qualities, combined with an almost ab- 
sorbing irenius and taste for music, were not calculated to induce 
a very close and untiring application to the prescribed studies, 
although his talent for acquiring readily a knowledge of the 
lanauao.es, classic and modern, was remarkable. He needed 
the spur of the res angusta domi to make him hold high rank as 
a college student. Lacking this, and the other spur of literary 
ambition, it is almost needless to add, that he did not graduate 
"with all the honors." Immediately after leaving college, he 
began, 1 September, 1832, the study of medicine in Boston, in 
the Medical School under the superintendence of Dr. James 
Jackson (H.C. 1796), and remained there until April, 1833. 
He embarked, 1 April, 1833, in company with his classmate Tar- 
bell, for Liverpool, to prosecute his studies at the medical schools 
of Paris, where he remained three years. In May, 1834, he 
was married at Dover, Eng., to Victoire Marie Anne Ade- 
laide Bellenger, of Paris ; who survived him, without children. 
He left Paris, 1 July, 1836, for Heidelberg, Germany, to finish 
his medical studies. Having passed a most creditable examina- 
tion (in the French tongue as a medium of communication) be- 
fore the medical department of the Heidelberg University, and 
obtained his diploma, he returned to Paris, 21 May, 1837. He 
then embarked for home, where he arrived 1 July, 1836 ; and 
1 September, 1837, began the practice of medicine in his native 

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1860-61.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 373 

town. He succeeded, with only a short interval, to the large 
practice of his late guardian, Dr. Otis, whose place he seemed 
almost providentially to have been fitted to supply. His Euro- 
pean education and universal popularity as a fellow-townsman 
combined to render the claims upon his skill very numerous and 
constant, and his labors very arduous and unremitting, including 
a wide range of travel by night and by day. His wife having 
become dissatisfied with Scituate as a place of residence, he was 
persuaded to give up his practice, and remove to New-York 
city. But, having from his observations there concluded that 
dentistry would prove more lucrative to him as a stranger in 
that large city than the practice of his profession as a physician, 
he placed himself under the instruction of the late Dr. Burdell, at 
that time an eminent and successful practitioner of the dental art. 
After an itinerary practice in Vermont and Massachusetts for a 
few years with varying success, he was strongly urged to estab- 
lish himself at Rio Janeiro as a dentist ; and he accordingly 
embarked at Boston for that place in the fall of 1843. His 
genial and refined manners, his unobtrusive deportment, and un- 
divided attention to his business, very soon won for him hosts of 
friends, and an overflowing patronage, until in a few years he 
was honored in his calling with the preference of the emperor 
and the royal family ; thereby supplanting a jealous and un- 
principled rival, and bringing to nought all the "devilish en- 
ginery " of his malice and falsehood. For the last ten years or 
more, up to the time of his leaving Rio, he retained his post of 
honor as " dentist to the royal family of Brazil." 

On the 7th of April, 1860, he left Rio, via Southampton, 
with the intention of coming home ; and on his passage was 
struck with paralysis, which rendered him insensible for four 
days. He recovered partially, landed at Southampton, re- 
mained there three weeks, and was then removed to Amiens, 
France. Here he hired a pleasant house and garden, as his 
home for the coming winter, in the hope of recovering his 
health and bodily activity, so as to revisit the home of his youth 
in the ensuing spring. But he soon afterwards left Amiens, and 
went to Paris, where he concluded to pass the winter. But 



374 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1800-61. 

alas for all human hopes! After breakfast, on the 14th of 
October, while in the act of replacing his watch, he was struck 
again with paralysis ; and looking up to his wife with the 
remark, " I can't put it back," he fell into her arms, and never 
spoke or knew any thing afterwards, lie died in the evening of 
that day, having very nearly completed forty-nine years of his 
existence. The funeral-service of the deceased was performed 
by a clergyman of the Protestant church. If report speaks 
true, the doctor had accumulated quite a large property during 
his residence at Rio, Some, who claim to know, placed it as 
high as eighty thousand dollars. 

1834. — Tiiaddeus Clapp died in Dorchester, Mass., 10 
July, 186 1, aged 50 years. He was the second son and third 
child of Capt. William and Elizabeth (Humphreys) Clapp, 
grandson of Capt. Lemuel and Rebecca (Dexter) Clapp, and 
a descendant in the seventh generation from Nicholas and Sarah 
Clapp, of Dorchester. He was born in Dorchester, 11 May, 
1811. He was fitted for college at the academy of Hiram 
Manley (H.C. 1825), in Dorchester. In college he attained a 
distinguished rank, and graduated with the second honors of his 
class. Immediately after leaving college, he taught, for a short 
time, a private school in Brookline. He was superintendent of 
the sunday-school of the First Church and Society in Dor- 
chester for about two years from 1836. On the 16th of Feb- 
ruary, 1837, he entered his name w^h Col. Loammi Baldwin, 
of Charlestown, Mass., as a student in engineering; but, on 
account of ill health, did not prosecute his studies. On taking 
his degree of master of arts, in 1837, the Latin valedictory 
oration was proffered to him by President Quincy ; which, on 
account of feeble health, he could not accept. He was secretary 
of the board of school-committee in Dorchester several years, 
and wrote some of the annual reports ; among them those for the 
years 1842 and 1843, which were printed. In the fall of 1838, 
he went to Franklin, La., where he was, for some six or seven 
months, a tutor in the family of William T. Palfrey, Esq., 
brother of Hon. John G. Palfrey, postmaster of Boston, 
(H.C. 1815). He returned to Dorchester in the summer of 



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1839. About the year 1840, he engaged in horticultural and 
pomological pursuits, which he continued during his life. He 
became quite celebrated among the fruit-growers for his theoret- 
ical and practical knowledge, and obtained many premiums for 
choice varieties of fine samples of fruit. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and the Norfolk Agri- 
cultural Society. He was of a most amiable disposition, and 
led a life of unspotted integrity. He married in Claremont, 
N.H., 11 August, 1857, Mary H. Dustin, daughter of Rev. 
Caleb Dustin ; but had no children. His wife survived him. 

1834. — Rufus Hosmer died in Lansing, Mich., 20 April, 
1861, aged 45 years. He was son of Hon. Rufus (H.C. 
1800) and Amelia (Paine) Hosmer, and was born in Stow, 
Mass., 16 July, 1816. His father was born in Concord, Mass., 
18 March, 1778 ; and was a lawyer in Stow. He was a mem- 
ber of the executive-council in 1839, and died very suddenly 
in Boston, 19 April, 1839, aged 61 years. His grandfather, 
Hon. Joseph HosmSr, was born in Concord, 25 December, 
1735 ; and was one of the most honored and distinguished citi- 
zens of the town. He took a conspicuous part in the events of 
the revolution. He was a representative five, and a senator 
twelve, years. He was appointed sheriff of the county in 
1792, and filled the office fifteen years. He died 31 January, 
1821, aged 85 years. His maternal grandfather, Major Phineas 
Paine, was a native of Randolph, and was a hero of the revo- 
lution. He served in the army three years, being at Morristown, 
Valley Forge, White Plains, and Monmouth. From Randolph 
he removed to Milton Hill, and there married Nancy Babcock. 
Many years afterwards, he removed to Concord, where he died. 

The subject of this notice was fitted for college at the acad- 
emy in Stow. After leaving college, he studied law in his 
father's office, and attended lectures at the Law School in Cam- 
bridge. In 1838 he went to Michigan, and soon afterwards 
was admitted to the bar. He began the practice of his profession 
in Pontiac, Oakland county ; at first in partnership with his cou- 
sin, Charles Draper (H.C. 1833), and afterwards with the late 
George Wisner. He was very successful, and attained a high 



376 NECROLOGY OF ALUMM [1860-61. 

rank as a lawyer. Hut, after a few years, he relinquished the 
profession, removed to Detroit, and became editor of the "Daily 
Advertiser," in that city ; in which position he remained about 
seven years ; when, having been appointed state-printer, it be- 
came necessary for him to reside in the capital of* the state ; and 
he removed to Lansing, where he became part owner and editor 
of the " Lansing Advertiser." Here he remained about three 
years ; and relinquished his situation, a few days before his death, 
to accept the appointment of consul at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 
which had been conferred upon him. While making prepara- 
tions for his departure to his foreign post, he was prostrated by 
an attack of apoplexy, which terminated his life after a few 
days' illness. As an editor and an agreeable and finished writer, 
he had few superiors. But it was for his high social qualities, 
his keen wit, his ready repartee, and his powers of conversation, 
that he was best known and most admired in the various com- 
munities in which he resided. 

He married, in 1840, Sarah Chamberlin, daughter of Dr. 
Olmsted Chamberlin, of Pontiac. His wife survived him ; 
as did also three children, — two daughters and an infant son. 
A year ago, in May last, he lost his then only son, Rufus, at 
the age of eighteen years. The little boy, who survives him, 
was only ten days old when his father died ; and, the day before 
he was taken sick, he named him Rufus, making the third gene- 
ration who bore that name. 

1840. — Dr. Benjamin Heywood died in Worcester, Mass., 
21 July, 1860, aged 39 years. He was the eldest son of Dr. 
Benjamin Franklin (D.C. 1812) and Nancy (Green) Heywood, 
and was born in Worcester, 16 July, 1821. He was fitted for 
college at the classical school in Worcester, under Charles Thurber 
(B.U. 1827). Immediately after leaving college, he began the 
study of medicine under the instruction of his father, attended his 
first course of medical lectures in Boston, and the two succeed- 
ing courses in Philadelphia ; and, in the spring of 1843, received 
the degree of M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, in Phila- 
delphia. He then began the practice of his profession in Wor- 
cester, and continued it until the spring of 1846 ; when he went 



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to Europe, for the purpose of perfecting himself in the theory 
and practice of surgery in the city of Paris. He returned in 
1847, and resumed the practice of his profession in Worcester, 
and continued until almost the day of his decease : having pre- 
scribed, within three days of his death, for an old patient ; and 
prescribing, also, mainly for himself during his long illness of 
more than a year. He combined, with high attainments in theo- 
retical knowledge, rare skill in diagnosis, and discriminating 
judgment in the application of his remedial agents. Few men 
of his years in the profession were more successful practitioners, 
both in medicine and surgery. Descended from a line of an- 
cestry eminently distinguished in medicine and surgery, he 
seemed to have acquired the art of healing almost by intuition. 
Apprehending readily the obscure as well as the prominent in- 
dications of disease, his remedies were adapted with rare skill 
and success. He was never married. 

1846. — John Downes Austin, of Boston, died in White 
Plains, N.Y., 28 February, 1861, aged 34 years. He arrived 
at New-York city from Boston, on Thursday, 26 February, 
on a visit to some relatives. On Wednesday, he expressed 
apprehensions of an attack of temporary insanity, with which 
he had been affected on two former occasions ; and, should it 
occur, he feared he might attempt to commit suicide. He 
therefore wished that his friends would keep all implements of 
harm out of his way. In consequence of this, a friend kept 
watch of him during the night, and he rested quietly. About 
daylight on the 28th, this watcher fell asleep. He slept about 
twenty minutes ; and, when he awoke, he found that Mr. Austin 
had disappeared. Search was immediately made for him, but in 
vain. On Friday, 1 March, his hat was found in Bronx River, 
not far from Williams Bridge, and his shirt on the bank of the 
river near by ; which led to the inference, that he had committed 
suicide by drowning : and a careful search of the river was made 
for his body, but with no success. Search was continued by his 
friends and the police, and a reward of one hundred dollars was 
offered for the discovery of his body. On Thursday, 11 April, 
a man was fishing from a boat in a pond at White Plains, when 

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he observed a strange object in the bottom of the water. Assist- 
ance was procured ; and the object, which proved to be the body 
of Mr. Austin, was drawn up. A very affecting incident con- 
nected with the matter was the sudden death of his elder brother, 
Mr. William Downes Austin, formerly of the United-States navy, 
at a village in New .Jersey, on the 4th of April. He was plunged 
into great grief at the disappearance of his brother John, and 
joined in the search of the missing man. He repaired to New 
Jersey to view the body of a man who had been found there. 
He had been called to breakfast, and replied, that he would be 
down soon ; but, not appearing, a servant went to his room 
again, and found him lying dead upon his bed, his eyes suffused 
with tears. 

The subject of this notice was son of William and Hepzibah 
(Downes) Austin, and was born in Boston, 10 February, 1827. 
He resided in Boston, Roxbury, Lowell, and Dedham, Mass. ; 
at Ravenwood Plantation, La. ; and Columbia, Tenn. He 
attended school soine time at the last-named place. In 1839 
and 1840, he made voyages to New Orleans. He was fitted for 
college at the school of Mr. Stephen Minot Weld (H.C. 1826) 
at Jamaica Plain. After graduating, he pursued the study of the 
law in the office of Bradford Sumner, of Boston (B.U. 1808) ; 
completed his studies at the Law School in Cambridge, 
where he received the degree of LL.B. in 1848; and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1849. In 1850, he removed to 
Taunton, Mass., where, for a short time, he practised law 
in company with Horatio Pratt (B.U. 1825). In 1853, he 
went to New York to reside ; but shortly afterwards returned 
to Boston. In 1854, he practised law in Boston. In 1856, 
after the death of his father, having relinquished law, he 
passed one or two winters at Water Proof, La., superintending 
the affairs of a plantation belonging to a connection. 

Mr. Austin was a person of excellent abilities and under- 
standing, with a mind well stored with general information. 
The wandering life which he led, as a boy, would seem to have 
had some influence on his late career, and to have unfitted him 
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competency, he was not obliged to rely for a livelihood. He 
was never married. 

1849. — Dr. Horace AY alter Adams died in Boston, 
17 February, 1861, aged 33 years. He was son of Charles Fre- 
derick and Caroline Hesselrigge (Walter) Adams, and was born 
in Boston, 8 December, 1827. He was fitted for college at the 
public Latin School in this city. He adopted the practice of 
medicine for a profession, and pursued his studies at the Tre- 
mont Medical School in Boston. He chose his native city as 
the field of his practice, and was early appointed a dispensary 
physician ; and so deeply did he interest himself in this practice, 
that at one time he had charge of the invalid poor, under the 
auspices of that benevolent institution, for wards four, five, and 
six. His labors in this department of practice were very various, 
extensive, and arduous; yet he cheerfully and faithfully re- 
sponded to all their requirements. 

He was a sincere lover of his profession, which was adopted, 
not from necessity, but from a real and abiding interest in its 
pursuit, which induced him to devote to its practice the best 
energies of his life. His services were very frequently demanded 
at the Eye-and-Ear Infirmary in Boston, where he established a 
character for reliable judgment, and gentleness of treatment of 
those delicate organs, which made him a skilful operator at that 
institution. He was untiring in industry and zeal for those pa- 
tients whom he attracted about him : indeed, his devotion to his 
profession was at times so absorbing, that he felt it due to his own 
health that both his body and mind should have occasional 
recreation. Accordingly, he was accustomed from time to time, 
as he felt the need thereof, to engage with one or two friends in 
sporting excursions, of which he was remarkably fond; and 
it was on an occasion of this nature that he contracted the disease 
which terminated his life. 

On Tuesday, 5 February, 1861, he left Boston, in company 
with Mr. Francis Lowell Gardner, a member of the junior class 
at Harvard College, and two other friends, to spend a few days at 
Cotuit Point, a town on the South Shore. On Sunday, the 10th 
of February, Mr. Gardner, having contracted a very severe cold 



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which affected his throat, died of diphtheria, most unexpectedly to 

his friends and associates. Dr. Adams attended Mr. Gardner 

most assiduously ; and he was brought so immediately in contact 
with his friend and patient at the last hours of his life, that he 
unconsciously imbibed some portion of the fatal disorder into his 
throat and lungs, which became immediately affected on his re- 
turn to Boston, where he died on the Sunday following, 17 Feb- 
ruary, of the same disorder. lie was never married. 

Dr. Adams was not only an accomplished physician, but his 
genial manners, his kindness of heart, and his own ready sym- 
pathy with the sick and suffering, so won the confidence of his 
indigent patients, that their affection for him often outlived their 
convalescence, and led them, as was repeatedly the case, to con- 
sult him and seek his judicious advice upon pecuniary matters ; 
to which, although foreign to his profession, he always gave the 
most careful attention : and for his untimely departure there 
were very many of his patients whose hearts were made really 
desolate ; some who wept bitter tears for the loss of their " good 
physician." 

1854. — William Gaston Pearson died in Oakland, Ma- 
rion county, Cal., 19 January, 1861, aged 26 years. He was 
born in North Carolina, 24 March, 1834. He was at St. 
James College, Maryland, five years, — three in the preparatory 
school, and two in the college. He entered the sophomore class 
in Harvard College in September, 1851 : left, on account of 
ill health, in November, 1853 ; but took his degree with his 
class. He went to Europe, where he remained a year ; then 
back to this country for a while ; then to Cuba for a winter ; and 
thence to San Francisco, Cal., where his disease (consumption) 
seemed to be arrested. He returned to the Atlantic states in 
1857 or 1858, and went to farming on his family estate at Brent- 
wood, near Washington, D.C. His health continued pretty 
good until the spring of 1860, when a violent pleurisy again 
prostrated him. He failed rapidly, and on the 1st of De- 
cember he sailed again for California, in hopes of a recovery ; 
but he was too far gone, and died 19 January, soon after his 
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1856. — Isaac Nelson Beals died of consumption, in 
Dexter, Me., 5 August, 1860, aged 29 years. He was son of 
Isaiah and Lucy (Bradstreet) Beals, and was born in Dexter, 
12 June, 1831. He was fitted for college at small academies 
and high-schools in the villages of Dexter, St. Alban's, and 
Corinna, Me. ; being governed in his choice of a school from 
term to term by circumstances and the abilities of the teacher. 
In his preparation for college, as well as during his college 
career, he was obliged to rely mainly upon such pecuniary 
resources as he could control by his own labor, principally in 
school-teaching. In September, 1853, he entered the sopho- 
more class in Waterville College, Me. ; having pursued the 
studies of the first year by himself, while teaching school, or 
while at home in the intervals of teaching. One who was a 
classmate with him at Waterville remarks, that "on entering 
college he at once took a high rank, which he constantly im- 
proved." At the end of the junior year, he left Waterville ; 
and in September, 1855, he entered Harvard at the beginning 
of the senior year. Here he exhibited the same studious traits 
which appear to have characterized his course at Waterville. 
In the winter after he entered Harvard, he taught West- 
brook Seminary, in Westbrook, Me. ; and in April, 1856, 
having received the appointment of principal of the high-school, 
Quincy, Mass., the faculty of the college gave him permission 
to begin his school before taking his degree ; and he immedi- 
ately entered upon his duties there. His labors in this school 
were highly satisfactory to the committee ; who state, in their 
report, that " at each visitation they witnessed proofs of thorough 
and faithful training, and heard recitations, which, in some 
respects, were wonderful." In September, 1858, he became 
principal of the high-school in Somerville, Mass., which ap- 
peared to have been unpopular in the town, and in a chaotic 
state ; but in tlii face of much opposition, and with constant 
ill health, he gave to the school, in less than a year, a high 
intellectual character and a faultless discipline. In discipline, 
indeed, he appeared ever to have excelled. In the summer of 
1859, he accepted an invitation to take charge of a new high- 



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school to be opened in Newton, and located in the village of 
Newtonville ; and entered upon hie duties in September. Here 
he remained until ill health compelled him to resign, in April, 
i860. His physical powers were by nature capable of great 
endurance ; but excessive mental labor from his boyhood, to 
which he was urged by his ambition to excel, backed by his 
almost unconquerable will, together with constant mental 
anxiety while bearing the responsibilities of prominent public 
schools, wore him out ; and when at length he was induced to 
give up work, which was several months after his physician 
began persuading him to do so, he was ill and exhausted beyond 
the chance of recovery. Immediately after his resignation, by 
the advice of his physician, he went to Philadelphia to seek the 
benefit of a milder climate. He returned in May, without any 
permanent improvement. He then went to his native place in 
Maine, hoping that the climate there might be beneficial ; but 
all to no purpose. He rapidly declined until death closed 
the scene. A communication from an intimate friend of the 
deceased to Mr. William Wirt Burrage, the secretary of the 
class, who kindly furnished the above sketch, says, "During 
the last few weeks of his illness, his character presented a very 
pleasant phase of mildness and tenderness, strongly contrasting 
with his habitual temperament. He was a great sufferer, but 
bore his pain patiently, and never murmured a word at his lot. 
In the last few days, he realized, more fully than did his friends, 
how near death was, talked composedly of it, and was prepared 
to meet it bravely and manfully. He was an ardent lover of 
nature, and spent hours out of doors for no other purpose than 
to admire its beauties, seeking varied landscape views from 
every hill-top and mountain. He ignored religious forms, but 
was no stranger to religion itself." 

He married, 9 August, 1859, Caroline Rowena Burgess, 
who had been his assistant at the high-school at Quincy. She 
was the daughter of Josiah and Nancy W. (Fuller) Burgess of 
Waltham, Mass. His younger and only brother Charles, who, 
like Isaac, inherited from his parents a decided character and 
great strength of will, died in 1857, about 25 years of age, from 



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illness brought on a few years before by physical over-exertion, 
into which he had been led by his ambition. The family survi- 
vors of the deceased are his widow, who lives in Cambridge ; and 
his father and mother, who live in Dexter, Me. 

1856. — Thomas Thaxter died in Methuen, Mass., 15 Au- 
gust, 1860, aged 26 years. He was son of Thomas and Ruby 
(Bradstreet) Thaxter, and was born in Methuen, 24 December, 
1833. He was a twin. His brother Robert died when two 
years of age. His father, whose first known ancestor, Deacon 
Thomas Thaxter, was born in Machias, Me., 2 November, 
1792, settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1635. He was connected 
with the Methuen Manufacturing Company, and died 27 Jan- 
uary, 1842. His mother, whose first known ancestor was Gov. 
Simon Bradstreet, was born in Billerica, Mass., 4 July, 1800 ; 
and died in Methuen, 21 Jurte, 1845. His parents were mar- 
ried 2 September, 1827. On the death of his mother, Mr. John 
Davis, of Methuen, was appointed guardian of the surviving 
children, Ruby and Thomas. Thomas lived for a short time 
upon a farm with Deacon Edward Carleton ; and about October, 
1846, began to attend a private school kept by Moses Bui bank 
and wife, and boarded with his uncle, Mr. William Thaxter. 
Here he remained a year, and then entered a family boarding- 
school in Fairhaven, Mass., kept by Rev. William Gould, where 
he remained about thirteen months. In 1849, he went to Phil- 
lips Academy, Andover, to prepare for college, where he re- 
mained a year and a half. While in Andover in 1851, he 
joined the Congregational (Orthodox) church in Methuen. In 
September, 1852, he entered the freshman class in Yale Col- 
lege, where he remained until May, 1854, when he took up his 
connexions. In September, 1854, he entered the junior class 
at Harvard. Towards the end of the term, a weakness of his 
eyes obliged him to remit his studies ; and in April of the follow- 
ing term he wasicompelled, from a general failure of health, to 
leave college. He did not return until January, 1856 ; from 
which time he remained until graduation. During the time he 
was able to study, he gained a very high rank in his class, 
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ship. On leaving college, he intended to pursue a business 
career, and entered the counting-room of E. and T. Fairbanks 
and Co., dealers in scales. No. 24, Kilby Street, Boston, but 
soon left on account of his health ; and, with the hope of improv- 
ing it, he went, in April, 1857, to Fairbault, Minn., on a visit 
to his uncle, Mr. William Thaxter, where, and in the vicinity, 
he remained working on a farm until November of that year. 

His health having apparently improved, he, in December, 
began to teach a public school in Stillwater, Minn., and, 1 Sep- 
tember, 1858, became principal of the high-school; but it was 
soon apparent that his health was not sufficient to sustain the 
labor. Before the end of his first term, he entered the school- 
room one morning, feeling very weak ; had proceeded with but 
few recitations, when he fainted ; was obliged to dismiss his 
school, never to resume it. Symptoms of incipient consumption 
were developed, followed by hemorrhage at the lungs. But by 
his ambition and perseverance he rallied in a degree, and took 
a class of private pupils, who recited to him a iew hours daily. 
The secretary of his class, to whom we are indebted for the 
foregoing particulars, concludes his record by quoting an account 
of the last portion of his life from one who had the best opportu- 
nity of learning the incidents : "As long as he was able to work, 
so long did he persist in doing so, even to within a short time of 
his decease. But, as daily and weekly he became sensible of a 
gradual decline, he began to feel a desire to be among his early 
friends; and in September, 1859, he returned to the East, to 
the house of Mr. Davis, his former guardian, where he remained 
until his death. For a short time after his return home, he 
seemed stronger. He could not rest unemployed ; and, against 
the wishes of his friends, he began book-keeping for a firm in 
Lawrence, Mass., with whom he remained three months. Here 
it was painfully evident to his friends that his life was fast ebbing 
away. He would frequently say, 'Am I lazy? or am I grow- 
ing weaker?' He was confined to his bed only four days, and 
to the last of his life manifested the same desire to wait upon 
himself, which had been one of the prevailing traits of his char- 
acter during his long sickness. Through the many months of 



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his last sickness, he often spoke of dying with the calmness that 
characterizes the Christian. When dying, his mind was calm 
and clear; and almost his last words were, f I want to go to 
heaven : I want to begin to work there.' " 

He left, as the only survivor of his immediate family, a sister, 
— Mrs. Ruby T. Tenny, of Methuen. 



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1796. — Henry Abbot died in Andover, Mass., 13 Janu- 
ary, 1862, aged 84 years. He was the fourth child and second 
son of Capt. Henry and Pliebe (Abbot) Abbot, and was born 
in Andover, 8 April, 1777. His father was son of Henry ; was 
born in Andover, 10 January, 1725 ; and died 21 February, 
1805, aged 80 years. His mother was daughter of Deacon 
Isaac Abbot, of Andover; was born 26 November, 1746; and 
died 29 June, 1833, aged 86 years. He was fitted for college 
at Phillips Academy, Andover. After leaving college, he en- 
gaged in mercantile business in Bedford, Mass. He did not, 
however, remain there long ; but went to sea, in the capacity of 
captain's-clerk, with Capt. David Woodward, of Charlestown, 
in the ship " Catharine," of Boston, owned by Samuel Torrey, 
Esq. : it was a voyage around the world. Sailing from Bos- 
ton, they touched at Rio Janeiro, and, doubling Cape Horn, 
proceeded up the west coast of South America, stopping at 
vai'ious places along the coast, until they reached California, 
whose golden treasures were then undreamed of; yet, as far as 
their voyage was concerned, the gains of their traffic along that 
coast exceeded those of many of the present day who meet 
with more than average success in the land of gold. Their 
next destination was Canton ; where they arrived, after stop- 
ping on their way at the Sandwich Islands, which were then 
in their primitive condition of barbarism. Taking in a cargo of 
Canton goods, the ship returned to Boston by way of the Cape 
of Good Hope. At the Isle of France, on his return voyage, 
Mr. Abbot was greatly and agreeably surprised to meet his 
brother, whom he supposed to be at home ; and learned from 
him the death of their father, who, at the age of eighty years, 
was in good health when he parted from him. He made 



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one more similar voyage with the same captain, in the ship 
" Dromo ; " which was also owned by Samuel Torrey. His 
attachment to Capt. Woodward was very strong. He spoke of 
his treatment of him as being like that of a father, and also 
of his kind and considerate treatment of his crew ; while, 
at the same time, his authority over them was unimpaired. 
After his return from his last voyage, he engaged in trade at 
Andover ; but soon afterwards, in partnership with his brother, 
went into the wholesale grocery-business in Boston. Owing to 
the embarrassments brought upon the trade by the embargo at 
that time, their business was unsuccessful ; and Air. Abbot re- 
turned to Andover. About 1814, he visited the Western 
country ; crossing the Alleghany Mountains on foot, and, from 
Pittsburg, navigating the Ohio River, with a single companion, 
in a small boat, to the falls of the Ohio River at Louisville, 
Ky. There were but few inhabitants along the Ohio at that 
early day ; and the principal places where he stopped to trans- 
act business (which are now large and flourishing cities) 
were at that time small settlements, composed of a few log- 
cabins. At Lexington, Ky., he met with Mr. Newman (after- 
wards Prof. Samuel P. Newman, of Bowdoin College), and 
returned home in company with him, performing the whole 
journey on horseback. He afterwards Avent a journey South as 
far as Georgia, to visit his brother. On his return home, he 
settled down in Andover with his mother, on the home-farm, 
and remained there until her death. He then removed to 
Chester, N.H. ; and, after residing there about six years, re- 
turned to Andover, and lived there, amidst old scenes and old 
acquaintance, until his death. 

He was a member of the Old South Church in Andover for 
thirty-eight years. He was unswerving and decided in his reli- 
gious convictions and principles, earnest and consistent in his 
Christian life. In his family he was social, warm-hearted, and 
cheerful ; and, in his intercourse with society, genial and friend- 
ly ; generally lively, and often jocose, in the company of his 
friends. In politics, early in life, he was fully convinced of the 
correctness and true policy of the principles of the federalists, 



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and honestly contended for the interests of that party. lie 
naturally fell in with the sentiments of* the whiga when that 
party came into existence, advocated their principles, and heart- 
ily co-operated with them. In his last years, he uniformly 
acted and voted with the republicans ; and cast his lasl eote for 
the candidates of that party, at the last November election.' 
He was abroad until a few weeks before his death, retained his 
faculties to the last, and died, not of disease, but of old age. 

He married, May, 1807, Judith Follansbee, — a niece and 
adopted child of Dr. Abiel Pierson, of Andover. He had six 
children, — four daughters and two sons. Three of the daugh- 
ters and one son survived him. His wife also survives him ; 
being now eighty years of age. 

1798. — Hon. Eichard Sullivan died in Cambridge, 11 
December, 1861, aged 82 years. He was the third son of 
Hon. James and Mehitable (Odiorne) Sullivan, and was born 
in Groton, Mass., 17 July, 1779. His father was born in 
Berwick, Me., 22 April, 1744. He was a lawyer by profes- 
sion, and began practice in Georgetown, Me. ; but soon after- 
wards removed to Biddeford, Me. In February, 1778, he 
removed to Groton, Mass. ; and, in 1782, he removed from 
Groton to Boston. He was a judge of the Supreme Court, 
and attorney-general of Massachusetts. In 1807, he was cho- 
sen governor of the state; was re-elected in 1808, and died 
while in office, 10 December, 1808. Mr. Sullivan's mother 
was the daughter of William Odiorne, a ship-builder, of Dur- 
ham, N.H., where she was born 26 June, 1748 ; and died in 
Boston, 26 Januaiy, 1786. Young Sullivan was fitted for 
college at the Boston Latin School. He was well prepared for 
pursuing the prescribed studies in the college course, but did 
not pi'esume so far upon his acquirements as to pass superficially 
over the assigned tasks. As a scholar, he was among the most 
distinguished of his class. His character was spotless, his 
disposition kind and benevolent, his manners polished, without 
affectation or parade. After leaving college, he studied law in 
the office of his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1801, but did not long pursue his profession, as he had an 



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ample competence of worldly goods. In his early manhood, he 
took much interest in political affairs. He was elected a senator 
in the state legislature from Suffolk in 1815 and the two fol- 
lowing years ; was a member, from Brookline, of the conven- 
tion for revising the constitution of the state in 1820 ; was a 
member of the governor's council in 1820 and 1821. In 1823, 
he was the candidate of the federal party for lieutenant-gover- 
nor of the state, the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis being the candi- 
date for governor; but the ticket was defeated. In 1821, he 
was elected a member of the board of overseers of Harvard 
College, and held that office until the board was newly consti- 
tuted by an act of the legislature of Massachusetts in 1852, which 
was accepted by the corporation and overseers of the college. 
He was public-spirited and philanthropic ; and the records of 
several of our most valuable public institutions, founded during 
the first thirty years of the present century, bear ample testi- 
mony to his services in their behalf. It was at a meeting of 
gentlemen at his house that the project of the Massachusetts 
General Hospital was first seriously started ; and, among those 
who aided in rearing that beneficent establishment, the labors 
of few were more earnest or efficient than those of Mr. Sulli- 
van. Removing into the country, and residing for many years 
in the neighboring town of Brookline, he was anion «; the first 
of those, who, nearly half a century ago, gave an impulse to 
rural tastes and pursuits, to the advancement of agriculture, 
and to that culture of fruits and flowers, which, now wide- 
spread, does so much to embellish and refine life among us. 
Here, at his beautiful estate in the country, surrounded by his 
wife and daughters, he had a home, which, in the dignity and 
grace that presided over it, in the intellectual and moral refine- 
ment that pervaded it, in the holy love and faith that sanctified 
it, was the model of a Christian home ; and comes up to the 
thoughts of all who remember it, as being as near an approach 
to a picture and miniature of heaven as. they may ever hope 
to see on earth. 

He married, 22 May, 1804, Sarah Russell, a daughter of 
the eminent and wealthy merchant, Thomas Russell, of Boston; 



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and shortly alter, in company with her, made an extensive tour 
in Europe. The issue of this marriage was four sons and four 
daughters, of whom only two sons survived him. His wife 
died 8 June, 1831. 

L799. — (Jen. William Byslof Si.mnki; died in Weal 
Roxbury (Jamaica Plain), Mass., 24 October, 18G1, aged 
• s 1 years. He had been helpless from paralysis for four years; 
and, for the last two years of his life, was hardly able to utter a 
sentence intelligibly. He was the only son of Hon. Increase 
(II. C. 1767) and Elizabeth (Ilyslop) Sumner, and was born 
in Roxbury, 4 July, 1780. His father was born in Roxbury, 
27 November, 174(5; was associate-judge of the Supreme Court 
from 1782 to 1797 ; was governor of Massachusetts from 1797 
until his death, 7 June, 1799. His mother was the daugh- 
ter of William and Mehitable Hyslop ; was born in Boston, 
5 August, 1757 ; and died 28 December, 1810, aged 53 years. 
William Hyslop was an eminent and prosperous merchant in 
Boston, but about 1781 removed to Brookline, Mass., where 
he died 11 August, 1796, aged 84 years. The house in which 
the subject of this notice was born was formerly owned by 
Judge Robert Auchmuty, a royalist, and was confiscated. He 
was first sent to school under the charge of Master Abiel 
Hey wood (H.C. 1781), principal of the grammar-school in 
Roxbury; next under Rev. William Emerson (H.C. 1789), 
afterwards minister of the First Church in Boston, who was 
succeeded by Rev. Calvin Whiting (H.C. 1791), he being 
followed by Rev. John Pipon (H.C. 1792), afterwards 
minister in Taunton, Mass. About this time, Gen. Lincoln 
marched his troops against Shays during the rebellion. Young 
Sumner, then about six years old, saw the troops, under Major 
Spooner, march from Meeting-House Hill in Roxbury, where 
the church now stands in which the Rev. Eliphalet Porter then 
preached. From the Roxbury school he was taken away in 
1789 ; was placed in the family of his uncle, Charles Cushing 
(H.C. 1755), and sent to the writing-school of Master Oliver 
Wellington Lane (H.C. 1772), in the westerly part of Boston. 
When Gen. Washington visited Boston in that year, the boys 



1S61-62.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 391 

of all the schools formed the front lines of the streets through 
which he passed ; and Sumner well remembered the dignified 
manner in which Washington received the plaudits of the peo- 
ple in the streets and houses ; and that he, with the rest of the 
boys in the school, about seventy in number, carried long 
quills with the feathers on ; and, when Washington passed, they 
paid him a salute by rolling those quills in their hands. In 
1793, he was sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, where he 
was fitted for college. He remained there two years. During 
the first part of that time, he was under Ebenezer Pember- 
ton (N.J. 1765), then under Abiel Abbot (H.C. 1787), and 
finally under Mark Newman (D.C. 1793). When he entered 
college, in 1795, the rooms in the college buildings were so full, 
that for three years he lived in the house of the late Prof. 
Wiggles worth. He held a respectable rank of scholarship in 
his class. In his senior year, he delivered an English oration 
at exhibition. The subject was, "The Spirit of Innovation." 
It was a creditable performance. At commencement, the part 
assigned to him was a colloquy with John Harris on " The 
Importance of a National Character to the United States ; " but, 
on account of the death of his father a few weeks before, his 
performance was omitted. Immediately after graduating, he 
entered the office of Hon. John Davis (H.C. 1781), under 
whose instruction he pursued his legal studies ; was admitted to 
the bar in 1802, and opened an office at No. 4, Tremont Street, 
Boston ; and subsequently removed to Scollay's Building, 
where he occupied an office with Judge Davis, when the latter 
was appointed judge of the District Court as successor of Judge 
Lowell. He early distinguished himself by his successful 
defence of John Whiting, of Franklin, who was indicted for 
robbing himself, when he was carrying money to be exchanged 
in Maine for money of the Franklin Bank, of which he was an 
officer. He said he was assailed by robbers, and showed the 
holes, in the top of the chaise, made by the bullets which 
the pretended robbers fired at him. 

Gen. Sumner was aide-de-camp to Governors Strong and 
Brooks, — to the former in 1806 and from 1813 to 1816, and to 



392 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1861-62. 

the Litter from 1816 to 1818, when he was appointed adjutant- 
general by Gov. Brooks, and then relinquished the practice 
of the law. lie held the offices of adjutant-general and quar- 
termaster-general under Governors Brooks, Eustis, Lincoln, 
and Davis, until 1834; when, upon his resignation, General 
Dearborn was appointed his successor. In 1808, and the eleven 
following years, he was one of the representatives of Boston to 
the legislature. On the 10th of September, 1814, he was ap- 
pointed by Governor Strong executive-agent to repair " to the 
district of Maine (which was then invaded by the enemy), and 
promptly to provide any practicable means for the defence of 
that part of the state." On the same day, the commissioners 
for the sea-coast defence (Hon. David Cobb, Timothy Picker- 
ing, and John Brooks) also confided to him their full power. 
In December, 1814, he was appointed by the board of war to 
borrow money of the banks to pay off the troops which had 
been called out in Maine ; and when it was afterwards proposed 
to send three commissioners, two from Massachusetts and one 
from Maine, to the general government, ,to confer with it 
upon the measures of defence of the state in future, the mem- 
bers of the legislature from Maine agreed upon him as their 
commissioner to represent the interest of that part of the state. 
In 1816, he was sent, with Hon. James Lloyd, to present the 
Massachusetts claim to the general government for militia 
services. In November, 1826, he was appointed by the secre- 
tary of war a member of the board of army and militia officers, 
of which Gen. Scott was president, to report a plan for the 
organization of the militia, and a system of cavalry tactics. In 
December, 1831, he contracted for the purchase of Greenough's 
half of Noddle's Island (his sister and uncle owning the other 
half) , and projected the settlement of it as a part of the city of 
Boston ; and, with other gentlemen, founded and put in opera- 
tion the East-Boston Company, which thus came into possession 
of the whole island, and under auspices of which the improve- 
ments which have given East Boston its present measure of 
prosperity have been carried on. Since that time, he has done 
much for the welfare and adornment of the place. A few years 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 393 

since, he gave land to the value of six thousand dollars, the 
income to be applied to setting out shade-trees on the island. 
He also gave land to the value of eighteen or twenty thousand 
dollars for the erection of a library-building by the library-asso- 
ciation which bears his name, and to which he gave his own 
private library. He wrote a very elaborate history of East 
Boston, comprising eight hundred pages, with numerous en- 
gravings. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society. 

He married, first, 4 October, 1826, Mrs. Mary Ann Perry, 
daughter of Hon. James DcWolf, of Bristol, R.I. , and widow 
of Raymond H. J. Perry, brother of Commodore O. H. Perry : 
she died 14 July, 1835. He married, second, 13 December, 
1836, Mrs. Maria Foster Greenough, daughter of Elisha Doane, 
of Cohasset, and widow of David Stoddard Greenough, of Ja- 
maica Plain : she died 14 November, 1843. He married, third, 
18 April, 1848, Mary Dickinson Kemble, of New York, 
daughter of Peter Kemble, grand-daughter of Gen. Cadwallader, 
and niece of Gov. Thomas Gage. She survived him. He had 
no children by any of his wives. 

1800. — Rev. Daniel Kimball died in Needham, Mass., 
17 January, 1862, aged 83 years. He was son of Lieut. 
Daniel and Elizabeth (Tenney) Kimball, and tvas born in 
Bradford, Mass., 3 July, 1778. Until he was sixteen years 
old, he worked on his father's farm in summer, and attended the 
district school in winter. He Avas fitted for college at Atkinson 
Academy, N.H., under the instruction of John Vose (D.C 
1795). He held a respectable rank in his class, and graduated 
with honors. After leaving college, he was assistant-teacher in 
Sandwich Academy one year. For the next six months, he had 
charge of a school in his native town. He then returned to 
Cambridge as a theological student, under the direction of Rev. 
David Tappan, D.D. (H.C. 1771), Hollis Professor of Divin- 
ity ; was approbated, and began preaching in the spring or 
summer of 1803 : and, on taking his degree of master of arts 
that year, he pronounced the Latin valedictory oration. At the 
same time, he was appointed tutor for the Latin department. 

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This office he 1 1« 1<1 two years ; and, on resigning it, he returned 
to Bradford, where he resided more than two year.-, supplying 
vacant parishes, and giving what were termed " labors of love," 
pursuing theological and miscellaneous reading and study. In 
August, 1808, he was appointed preceptor of Derby Academy, 
in Hingham, Mass., where he remained until the spring of 
1820. In addition to the duties of preceptor, he often preached, 
sometimes in neighboring pulpits in Bupply, or giving " labors 
of love." He was ordained at Hingham, as an evangelist, 
17 December, 1817. In the spring of 1826, lie removed to 
Needham, where he purchased a farm, and opened a boarding 
and day school for children of both sexes, which he continued 
until 1848, devoting himself at the same time to agricultural 
pursuits. His published works were, A Lecture in Poetry on 
Temperance ; also another Address on Temperance, on the 4th of 
July ; An Address before the Peace Society at Hingham, of 
which he was president ; a Sermon on Unitarianism, preached at 
Milton, Mass., where he supplied the pulpit at intervals for a 
few years ; a Discourse before the American Institute of In- 
struction, at the State House, on the Employment of Female 
Teachers. 

He was president of the Needham Lyceum for twenty-five 
years, and was for nearly as many years chairman of the school- 
committee. He was a representative to the state legislature in 
1846. In his religious principles he was a firm Unitarian, lie 
w r as highly respected as a man of unblemished character, a kind 
friend, a hospitable neighbor, and a devoted husband and 
parent. 

He married, 23 March, 1808, Betsey Gage, of Bradford, 
daughter of Peter and Mary (Webster) Gage, descended, on 
her father's side, from Major Benjamin Gage, an officer in 
the American army in the struggle for our national indepen- 
dence. The children of this marriage were as follows (all 
born in Hingham) : 1. Elizabeth Tennv, born 23 March, 1810 ; 
died 2 April, 1833. 2. Harriet Webster, born 1 December, 
1812 (afterwards widow of John M. Washburn). 3. Daniel, 
born 1 October, 1814; died 17 December, 1827 (was fitted for 



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college at the time of his death). 4. Benjamin Gage, born 
5 May, 1816 (H.C. 1837). 5. Mary Jane, born 19 October, 
1817 (now wife of Hon. James Ritchie, of Roxbury) (H.C. 
1835). 6. Henry Column, born 25 February, 1820 (H.C. 
1840). 7. Charles David Tenny, born 6 September, 1821; 
died at Hingham, 24 July, 1822. 8. Charlotte Sophia (Mrs. 
Hoadley), born 31 July, 1823; died at Lancaster, 12 June, 
1848. 9. Clara Anna, born 7 January, 1825 ; died at Need- 
ham, 25 December, 1847. Mr. Kimball's wife survived him. 

1801. — Henry Newman died in Boston, 28 July, 1861, 
aged 78 years. He was son of Henry and Deborah (Gushing) 
Newman, and was born in Boston, 16 May, 1783. His father 
was a distinguished merchant. His mother was daughter of 
Hon. Thomas Gushing (H.C. 1744), representative of Boston, 
and speaker of the house, in 1763 ; when he so warmly espoused 
the cause of his country in the disputes with Great Britain, that 
Dr. Johnson in his "Taxation No Tyranny," speaking of the 
Americans, said, "If their rights are inherent and underived, 
they may, by their own suffrages, encircle with a diadem the 
brows of Mr. Cushing." He was also lieutenant-governor of 
the state. The subject of this notice was fitted for college at the 
Boston Latin School. While in college, his father became in- 
volved in consequence of speculations in Georgia lands, and 
President Willard generously paid a part of young Newman's 
college dues. Immediately after graduating, he entered as an 
apprentice in a merchant's store, but soon relinquished the 
situation ; began the study of law with Hon. Thomas Dawes 
(H.C. 1777), and completed his legal studies with Hon. Wil- 
liam Prescott (H.C. 1783). Soon after his admission to the 
bar, he went to the South, and spent most of the time for twenty 
years in Washington and other southern cities ; being engaged 
in securing the family property in the Georgia lands, and obtain- 
ing remuneration through the government at Washington. He 
was also agent for Joseph Blake, and several others, who had 
claims for lands in Virginia and other southern states. This 
led him to great intimacy with many eminent gentlemen at 
Washington, — among others, Gen. Jackson, — who treated him 



396 NECROLOGY OF ALfMNI [18G1-G2. 

with great kindness. lie thus obtained an exhaustless fund of 
information concerning those gentlemen, which rendered him a 
wry interesting i panion. 

A i'vw years ago, when a committee of the Alumni of Har- 
vard College was appointed to raise funds for the college library, 
the chairman of the committee, the late Thomas (J. Cary, called 
on Mr. Newman to ask him to take charge of the subscription 
in his class. He readily accepted the office ; and, without any 
special solicitation, handed Mr. Cary his check for five hundred 
dollars as his own subscription, saying that he was not so well 
able to give as he had once been, having lost some of his prop- 
erty; and that he wished to contribute while he was yet able, 
as further losses might put it out of his power to do so : thus 
giving, as a reason for subscribing, what many would have con- 
sidered an ample excuse for refusing to give at all. He was 
remarkable for his constant and unostentatious charities. He 
was a member of the Cincinnati Society, through his uncle, 
Ca.pt. Samuel Newman, who was an officer of distinction in 
the revolutionary war, and was killed, under Gen. Sinclair, in 
a battle with the Indians. His maimers were highly finished 
and gentle, of the old school. Never was a more kind-hearted 
man, a more devoted son, or affectionate brother. He was 
never married. 

1802. — Deacon Samuel Gkeele, of Boston, died in 
Swampscott, Mass., where he Avent to pass the summer, 
1G August, 1861, aged 78 years. He was son of Samuel and 
Olive (Read) Greele, and w r as born in Wilton, N.H., 3 July, 
1783. He was fitted for college at the academy in Xew Ips- 
wich, N.H. After graduating, he studied divinity with Rev. 
Jonathan French, of Andover, Mass. (H.C. 1771). He 
preached for several years, but was never ordained as a minister 
over any society ; and he resigned the sacred profession, much 
against his will, on account of temporary ill health. lie then 
became a devoted and useful teacher. lie was for some time 
preceptor of an academy in Marblehead. lie then removed to 
Boston, where he taught a private school from 1816 to 1822. 
In 1825, he entered into partnership with John Baker, under the 



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firm of Baker and Greelc, in the business of manufacturing print- 
ing-types. This firm was dissolved in 1827 ; and, the next year, 
Mr. Greele took into partnership Mr. Henry Willis ; and they 
continued the business, under the firm of Greele and Willis, until 
1832, when Mr. Greele retired from active business. He was 
a devoted member of various charitable and benevolent institu- 
tions. He was an officiating deacon in the Federal-street 
church for nearly fifty years, first under the ministry of Rev. 
Dr. Channing, and subsequently under Rev. Dr. Gannett. His 
steady and sincere adherence to the liberal faith, through all the 
fluctuations of time and opinion, was remarkable. He was a 
faithful worker in the American Unitarian Association. He 
was elected a representative from Boston in the state legislature 
in 1838, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843. He was a member of 
the board of aldermen in Boston in 1834, 1835, and 1836. 
He was the friend and associate of the young, his heart being 
always youthful ; and nothing pleased him better than the so- 
ciety of little children. His fund of anecdote, geniality of 
temper, and unfailing flow of spirits, made him the most agree- 
able of visitors and companions. His perfectly regular habits, 
yearly journeyings, and equanimity of temper, no doubt con- 
tributed to his long life. Pie was always surrounded by the 
most untiring and devoted love; and he passed away in sweet 
patience, without a murmur. 

He married, 3 May, 1812, Lydia Maria Sewall, daughter 
of Chief- Justice Samuel Sewall, of Marblehead (H.C. 1776). 
She died in Boston, 11 August, 1822, in the 32d year of her 
age, leaving no children. He married for his second wife, 19 
October, 1823, Louisa May, daughter of Col. Joseph May, of 
Boston. She died 14 November, 1828, at the age of 36 years, 
having had two children, — a son and a daughter. The son 
graduated at Harvard College in 1844. He married for his 
third wife, 18 October, 1831, Maria Antoinette Paine, daughter 
of Hon. Robert Treat Paine, of Boston (H.C. 1749). She 
died 26 March, 1842, aged 58 years, leaving no children. He 
married for his fourth wife, 8 October, 1844, Sarah Follansbee 
Emerson, of Newburyport, who survived him. 



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1802. — Rev. Charles Wellington died in Templeton, 
Muss., ,"» August, 1861, aged 8] years. He was the sixth 
child and fifth son of William and Mary (Whitney) Welling- 
ton, and was horn in Waltham, Mass., 20 February, 1780. 
His parents had eight sons and five daughters. One of these 
sons, Isaac, was drowned while a member of the senior class in 
Harvard College, 12 November, 1796. No other death took 
place among these children till more than fifty years afterward-. 
The subject of this notice was fitted for college partly at New- 
Salem Academy, and partly by Rev. Charles Stearns, D.D., of 
Lincoln, Mass. (H.C. 1773). About the time of graduation, 
he, with others, consulted lie v. David Tappan (H.C. 1771), 
Hollis Professor of Divinity, about their theological studies, 
and obtained from him a recommendation of a list of books for 
perusal for that purpose. But Dr. Tappan died 27 August, 
1803 ; and Dr. Henry Ware (H.C. 1785) was not appointed to 
succeed him until May, 1805. These young men, therefore, 
pursued their studies alone, as resident graduates ; meeting 
together occasionally for reading of essays, and comparison of 
views. 

He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Temple- 
ton, 25 February, 1807, as successor of Rev. Ebenezer Spar- 
hawk (H.C. 1756), who was born in what is now Brighton, 
15 June, 1738 ; was ordained 18 November, 1761 ; and died ~lh 
November, 1805, aged 67 years. Dr. Wellington continued his 
ministerial relation to his society until his death, a period of 
more than fifty-four years. About 1839, his health began to 
fail, so much as to interrupt the constancy of his public services ; 
and temporary provision was made for his aid : but he supplied 
the pulpit most of the time until 1843, when arrangements were 
made for the settlement of a colleague, and, 24 February, 1844, 
Rev. Norwood Damon was ordained as his assistant. Mr. Da- 
mon resigned his ministry, 1 November, 1845 ; and the supply of 
the pulpit was resumed by the senior partner. He preached 
most of the time until August, 1846. On the 13th of January, 
1847, Rev. Edwin Goodhue Adams was ordained as his col- 
league; where he still continues. On the 25th June, 1857, Dr. 



1S61-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 399 

Wellington preached a half-century sermon from his ordination. 
It Avas printed as prepared for the anniversary-day, four months 
before ; from which time it was postponed on account of the 
author's ill health. A very large concourse of parishioners 
and of other friends assembled on the occasion, and made most 
gratifying testimonials of esteem and affection in which they had 
held their aged pastor. In his sermon he gives a brief and very 
modest account of his labors. His influence as a minister was 
second to that of no one in the western section of Worcester 
county. That influence was always exerted in favor of religious 
and civil freedom, of Christian order, and scriptural piety. In 
1854, the honorary degree of doctor of divinity was conferred 
upon him by Harvard College. 

Dr. Wellington married, 29 June, 1807, Anna Smith, 
of Boston. The issue of this marriage was three sons and six 
daughters, of whom two sons and all the daughters survived 
their father. The two surviving sons graduated at Harvard 
College in 1838 and 1846 respectively. His wife died 
24 April, 1830 ; and he married for his second wife, 27 
July, 1831, Adelaide Russell, of Templeton, who survived 
him. By his second wife he had one child, a daughter, who died 
young. 

1804. — Dr. Jonathan Wild died in Braintree, Mass., 
6 December, 1862, aged 77 years. He was the oldest child of 
Jonathan and Deborah (Wild) Wild, and was born in South 
Wey mouth, Mass., 3 April, 1784; but, when he was about a 
year old, his parents removed to Braintree, where they lived 
and died. His father was the son of Capt. Silas Wild, and 
his mother was the daughter of Micah Wild, all of Braintree. 
Young Wild was fitted for college under the instruction of Rev. 
Dr. Jonathan Strong, of Randolph (D.C. 1786). After gradu- 
ating, he studied medicine with Dr. Ebenezer Alden, of West 
Randolph, father of the present Dr. Ebenezer Alden (H.C. 
1808), of Randolph. After completing his studies, he settled 
in Braintree, where he continued in active and successful prac- 
tice until 1844, when he retired from the profession. His per- 
sonal interests were seriously affected by his too-indulgent 






400 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [18U1 62. 

leniency towards his patients ; for, had he been more rigid in 
exacting his t\ur* for his professional services, he would have 
become a wealthy man ; but he suffered his accounts to remain 
uncollected, much to his pecuniary detriment. 

He married, first, 12 December, 1811, Nancy Lyn field, of 
Randolph, by whom he had three children, — all daughters, — 
of whom one only survived him. His wife died 23 August, 1 827. 
He married for his second wife, 11 February, 1830, Livia D. 
Thayer, of Braintree, sister of Col. Sylvanus Thayer ( !>.('. 
1807), the distinguished engineer, an officer in the Military 
Academy at West Point. By his second wife he had three 
children, — two daughters and one son, — of whom one daueh- 
ter deceased before him. The other two children, with their 
mother, survived him. 

1806. — Rev. William Turner Torret died in Madison, 
Lake county, O., 29 October, 1861, aged 75 years. He was the 
second son of James and Eunice (Turner) Torrey, and was born 
in Kingston, Mass., 5 February, 1786. His mother was the 
eldest daughter of Rev. Charles Turner (H.C. 1752), who 
was born in Scituate, Mass., 3 September, 1732 ; was ordained 
at Duxbury, Mass., 23 July, 1755 ; dismissed 10 April, 1775 ; 
was afterwards chaplain of Castle William, and senator in the 
state legislature: died in the town of Turner, Me., August, 
1818, aged 86 years. A classmate of the subject of this notice 
has furnished some particulars of his life, from which we extract 
the following: "Torrey entered college in 1802. During all 
the term of his collegiate course his moral character was un- 
blamable, his diligence in study exemplary, his standing in the 
class highly respectable. Fie graduated with collegiate honors. 
After he received his degree, he studied theology under Rev. 
Dr. John Reed, of West Bridgewater (Y.C. 1772). Dr. 
Reed was a decided Unitarian ; and Torrey, at that time, was 
of the same sentiments. Soon after he was licensed to preach, 
he took charge of the only Congregational church in New Dvd- 
ford, but was not ordained. It was when the Unitarian con- 
troversy, early in this century, was at its height ; when the 
odium tlteologkum pervaded many of the religious societies of 



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this order in Massachusetts. It may not be too strong an 
expression to say, that it raged at that time in New Bedford. 
The church and society were split between the two factions. 
The majority of the church — technically so called — separated 
from the society, and held distinct worship at another place ; 
while the society, as a body, continued in the old place of wor- 
ship, and adhered to Unitarianism. 

" Torrey, a young man, undrilled and unskilled in ecclesiastic 
tactics, found himself, in this logomachy, in a moral, or rather 
immoral, atmosphere, not congenial with his natural disposition, 
which was full of benevolence to all. His situation became 
unpleasant ; and he finally removed to Canandaigua, in New 
York, and was settled over a Unitarian society there. [He was 
ordained at Marlborough, Mass., in January or February, 1812, 
as minister of the Congregational church in Canandaigua, and 
resigned in the latter part of the year 1817.] He could 
not have been settled there long, when he experienced a 
change of religious feeling and of religious views, and became 
as orthodox in sentiment (using the term in its claimed and 
generally accepted sense) as before he was liberal. As was to 
be expected, he did not continue over the church in Canandaigua 
long after this. He was installed 1 January, 1818, in Ply- 
mouth, Mass., near his native town; and resigned 12 March, 
1823. His heart was naturally a loving one ; and his new 
views, if possible, increased the intensity of this love to all. 
Free from dogmatism, yet was he earnest and sincere. This 
charity, in its true sense, and his full belief in what he viewed 
all-important in religion, prompted him to revisit his former 
associates of the liberal order, and to kind efforts to convince 
them of their doctrinal errors ; which met with but little success." 

From Plymouth, Mr. Torrey went to Newport, R.I., where 
he ministered to the church, once under the charge of Dr. Samuel 
Hopkins, about three years ; ending in the course of the year 
1829. In 1830, he removed to Murray, Orleans county, N.Y., 
and settled on a farm. He was afterwards formally installed 
there as a pastor of a church. In November, 1853, he minis- 
tered to a parish in West Greece, N.Y., until March, 1856, 

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Afterward, when past the age of 70 years, he removed to Ohio, 
and pnaclicd for two years from January, 1858, to a church 
in Edinburgh, Portage county, O. 

He married, 2 June, 1814, Betsey James, daughter of 
William James, of Scituate. They had four sons, — Charles 
W., Josiah J., Francis, and Samuel, — of whom only the first 
named is living; he being a minister, settled in Madison, O., 
when his father died at his house. His wife died 30 April, 
1852, at East Cleveland, O., also at the residence of their 
only surviving son. 

1808. — Edward Fenwick Campbell died in Augusta, 
Ga., 27 September, 1861, aged 75 years. He was son of 
Macarton Campbell, a planter ; and was born in Augusta, Ga., 
25 January, 1786. He was fitted for college by Rev. Jona- 
than Homer (H.C. 1777), of Newton, Mass. He had the 
tastes of a gentleman of fortune from Georgia. His habits were 
good ; he made no efforts, apparently, to obtain college honors. 
After graduating, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 
Georgia, but never practised. He inherited a plantation and 
much wealth from his father ; also inherited many slaves, but 
never bought or sold any. His residence was in Georgia, where 
he occupied himself in cultivating his plantation. His character 
was one of singular honor, delicacy, and generosity : he was a 
very indulgent master. 

He married, in 1814, Maria Hull, daughter of Gen. William 
(Y.C. 1772) and Sarah Hull, of Newton, Mass. She died in 
Augusta, Ga., in 1846. He never married again. His wife 
prepared for publication a work entitled " Revolutionary Services 
and Civil Life of Gen. William Hull ; prepared from his Manu- 
scripts, by his Daughter, Mrs. Maria Campbell." In an address 
to the reader, she says, " Gen. Hull left behind him memoirs of 
his revolutionary services, in manuscript, which he had written 
for the gratification of his children and grandchildren. These 
memoirs are the basis of the present work. His spirit pervades 
the whole ; and my endeavor has been, that it should not 
be obscured. The facts are in substance precisely as he has 
related them. But, as his manuscript was not prepared for the 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 403 

press, it was necessary, to a certain extent, that the arrangement 
of the work, and sometimes the style, should be changed." 
To this work was added, by Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of 
Boston (H.C. 1829), grandson of Gen. Hull, "History of the 
Campaign of 1812, and Surrender of the Post of Detroit." 
Mr. Clarke, in his preface, alluding to the before-mentioned 
work, says, " This, which was written by himself (Gen. Hull), 
was prepared for the press by his daughter, Mrs. Maria Camp- 
bell, wife of Edward F. Campbell, Esq., of Augusta, Ga. It 
was a favorite and cherished object of this lady to erect this 
monument to the memory of her father, and her life was spai*ed 
by a kind Providence just long enough to enable her to com- 
plete it. Amid painful sickness and the languor of disease, she 
labored diligently until it was finished. This labor of love 
seemed to sustain her failing strength ; and when she reached its 
termination she could say, 'Lord, let me now depart ;' and the 
daughter passed into the spirit-land to meet the parent whom 
she had so tenderly loved. But another labor yet remains to be 
performed. Mrs. Campbell did not attempt the history of the 
campaign of 1812, and surrender of Detroit; and though 
deeply convinced that her father deserved praise, not blame, for 
his share in this transaction, yet she shrank from a work which 
she feared might involve her in angry controversy, and prevent 
the simple narrative of her father's revolutionary labors from 
being appreciated. She left to another hand, and another 
time, this part of the work. This task has been committed to 
the present writer ; who, with no qualifications except a strong 
conviction of the justice of the cause he advocates, founded on 
careful study and examination, joined with an earnest wish to be 
candid and conscientious, has undertaken the work. He is in- 
deed about to defend a grandfather, and one whom he remem- 
bers with mingled feelings of affection and respect." 

1815. — Samuel R Putnam died in Boston, 24 December, 
1861, aged 64 years. He was the eldest son of Hon. Samuel 
(H.C. 1787) and Sarah (Gool) Putnam, and was born in 
Salem, Mass., 2 April, 1797. His father was son of Gideon 
Putnam, of Dan vers, Mass., where he was born 13 April, 



404 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1861- G2. 

L768 ; was a lawyer in Salem, bul afterwards removed to Bos- 
ton : was judge of the Supreme ( !our1 of Massachusetts, a station 
which he held with dignity and honor. He died 3 July, 1853, 
aged 85 years. His mother was daughter iif John Grool and 
Lois (Pickering) Gool, a sister of Hon. Timothy Pickering 
(II. C. 1763), of Salem. His studies, preparatory for admission 
to college, were conducted by Jacob Newman Knapp (H.C. 
1802). His collegiate life was without reproach. On leaving 
college, he concluded to adopt a mercantile life ; and he entered 
the counting-room of Pickering Dodge, Esq., of Salem, where he 
served his apprenticeship. He ever afterwards spoke of Mr. 
Dodge with great esteem and respect. He made several 
voyages, as supercargo, to the East Indies. For many years 
he was engaged in business in Europe, particularly in the city 
of Antwerp. Here he established a house, and had as a part- 
ner an Englishman by the name of Alfred Barrow, a most 
estimable gentleman, for whom Mr. Putnam named his eldest 
son. This son died early in life, of Asiatic cholera, while trav- 
elling in Italy. He conducted his business with skilful enter- 
prise and success. In the course of time he returned to his 
native country, and still maintained his character as a merchant 
in Boston. His interest in the education of his children 
prompted him, in 1851, to return to Europe with his family ; 
and he spent with them three years in Paris, and nearly two 
years in Italy and Germany. He then returned, and again 
made Boston his home. He was not what is considered a public 
man. His own position in society he was careful to adorn by 
integrity and honor ; and whatever influence he exerted was 
mainly through the power of his example. A friend, who 
knew him intimately, in speaking of him, says, " Goodness 
deserves commemoration, especially in the modest merit that 
makes no claim. Its immediate and irresistible impression was 
of unpretending kindness, and an utter honesty and constitutional 
transparency that knew not how to deceive. That a nature so 
unassuming should be so noble and generous, was a perpetual 
charm. Our friend's humility had another delightful combina- 
tion with the directness and energy of his mind. His action or 



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speech was always forthright. Never had a soul cleaner and 
fuller expression of all its meaning in the manners, every look and 
word. Such was his unvarnished and confiding sincerity, that, 
after he had spoken, nothing remained for him to add or explain. 
He did not reflect on himself as a subject, but with unconscious 
beauty appeared himself for every object his reason and con- 
science owned as just; never involved, but in all his dealings 
open as the day. In his business he showed great practical ability, 
and a judgment in all affairs on which others associated with him 
could lean. What seemed unsentimental promptness or remarka- 
able ability in the concerns of this world was united with a won- 
derful and womanly tenderness of heart, making the eyes often 
moist and tearful above the ever-firm and manly lips. His 
faculties were not confined to any special vocation ; but he was 
deeply interested in his country and all mankind. He was 
earnest in his decisions, but never narrow. Always in a large 
charity was his appreciation of others. He was as broad in his 
intellectual culture as in his moral aims. He had a great taste 
for art, and enjoyment of its masterpieces abroad - t and, in the 
latter part of his life, acquired a command of the German 
tongue, which few seek save in youth. But finely foremost in 
him were the qualities of his heart, as they who loved him and 
lived with him so well know. Performing his duties constantly, 
and bearing his trials patiently, he has followed the distin- 
guished jurist, his father, and all his own sons." 

He married, 25 April, 1832, Mary, daughter of Rev. Charles 
Lowell, D.D. (H.C. 1800), of Boston, by whom he had 
three sons and one daughter. His first and third sons died 
some time before him. His second, and then only surviving son, 
Lieut. William Lowell Putnam, fell a martyr to his country ; 
having died in Maryland, 22 October, 1861, of a wound re- 
ceived the day previous in the battle of Edwards Ferry. His 
death will be identified with the military glory of America, as it 
shall be reflected from deeds of valor in the cause of freedom, 
earnest resolves and decisive acts in support and establishment 
of equal laws and righteous government. Mr. Putnam's widow 
and one daughter remain to cherish his memory, and illustrate 
his sympathies and affections. 



406 NKCROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1661-82. 

1817. — lion. Samuel Atkins Eliot died to Cambridge, 
29 January, 1862, aged 63 years. He was son of Hon. Samuel 
and < latharine (Atkins) Eliot, and was born in Boston, 5 March, 
L798. His father was an eminent and wealthy merchant. He 
was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School. He attained 
a high rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated with 
honors. After leaving college, he entered the Divinity School at 
( iambridge, and went through a course of theological study, but 
did not enter upon the clerical profession. He was a gentleman 
of great personal worth, and was repeatedly honored by eleva- 
tion- to offices of distinction. In 1834, he was elected a repre- 
sentative to the state legislature ; and, in 1843, he was chosen a 
senator from Suffolk district. He was a member of the board of 
aldermen in 1834 and 1835; and was mayor of the city in 1837, 
1838, and 1839. In 1850, he was elected a representative to the 
thirty-first Congress from Suffolk district, where he remained two 
years; but, at the close of his term, he declined to be a candidate 
for re-election. In 1853, he became a partner in the extensive 
commission ■ house of Charles H. Mills and Co., of Boston, 
where he remained six years, when the copartnerslrip was dis- 
solved; and he soon afterwards removed to Cambridge, where he 
passed the remainder of his life. In 1859, he was elected presi- 
dent of the Boston Gas-light Company. He was treasurer of 
Harvard College from 1842 to 1853. He was for many years 
a warden of King's Chapel, in Boston. He was a gentleman of 
unblemished moral character, of accomplished deportment, social 
and affable in his intercourse with his fellow-citizens ; and, in the 
many and important positions in which he was placed, he dis- 
charged his duties with great fidelity, with an honest conviction 
of what he thought to be right, and to the entire satisfaction of 
his constituents. 

He married, 13 June, 1836, Mary Lyman, the beautiful and 
accomplished daughter of Hon. Theodore Lyman, of Boston. 
Their children were one son and four daughters, as follows : 
Mary L., Charles William, Elizabeth E., Catharine A., and 
Fannie A. ; all of whom, with their mother, survived him, all 
but the last two beimr married. 



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1817. — Daniel Gilman Hatch, of Covington, Ky., died 
in Exeter, N.H., 13 March, 1862, aged 63 years. He was the 
oldest son of Samuel and Mary (Gilman) Hatch, and was 
born in Exeter, 3 August, 1798. He was fitted for college at 
Phillips Academy, Exeter. He left college in the last term of 
Ins senior year, before commencement ; and first taught an acad- 
emy in King-George county, Va., on the Upper Neck, so called, 
between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. In conse- 
quence of the unhealthiness of the location, he went, a year 
afterwards, to Dinwiddie county, Va., where he remained almost 
twenty years, devoting himself to teaching. He carried into his 
profession an enthusiasm for education, and a personal regard 
for the welfare of his scholars, which alike insured success, and 
won for him the regard of the many young men who were bene- 
fited by his instruction. He was a member of the celebrated 
Virginia convention in 1829. About 1837, he removed to Ken- 
tucky, settling at Georgetown, where he embarked in commer- 
cial pursuits. Here his fine business capacity and stern integrity 
soon gave him much influence ; and, though no longer a profes- 
sional teacher, his knowledge of every branch of educational 
science rendered good fruits. He was, until the day of his 
death, a trustee of the college in that village ; was for a time its 
treasurer, and held other offices in connection with it, by which 
he was enabled to promote its financial soundness, and add to 
its educational efficiency. His zeal in behalf of instruction did 
not confine itself to this institution. As he had done in Vir- 
ginia, so, during his residence in Kentucky, he was constantly 
finding positions as teachers for young men and women from the 
East ; thus giving deserving employment, and providing the 
means of a better education for the children of his neighbors and 
friends. It is stated that during his life he obtained at the West 
situations for over fifty persons, male and female ; and such was 
his discrimination, that in only one or two cases did they disap- 
point his expectations. About ten years before his death, he was 
called to Harrodsburg to take the cashiership of the Commercial 
Bank in that place. His management was admirable. In 1856, 
foreseeing the approaching financial crisis, he induced the direct- 



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ors to call in a large proportion of its wide circulation, thus en- 
abling the institution to ride out the gale without detriment. 
Soon afterwards he removed to Covington, and became a member 
of the firm of Buckner and I lull , of Cincinnati; but for a year or 
two he had withdrawn from active business. The almost simul- 
taneous death of his venerable parents, just a year before his 
decease, called him temporarily to the home of his childhood. 
He proposed only a fvw months' stay, and had taken his family 
with him. His health had long been somewhat impaired ; but 
there was nothing to forbid the hope for him of many years 
more of usefulness, until attacked with a sudden acute disease. 
He breathed his last beneath the roof under which he was born. 
He was a kind father, a sincere and devoted friend, a sterling 
patriot, and an earnest member of the Baptist church, and was 
officially connected with most of the benevolent enterprises of 
that denomination in the state of his residence. 

He married, 30 May, 1822, in Dinwiddie county, Va., Ann 
Eliza Thompson ; by whom he had one son and two daughters, 
of whom the son and one daughter survive him. The other 
daughter, named Mary E. Prudentia, married, 15 April, 1852, 
Col. B. R. Johnson, professor in the Nashville military univer- 
sity. She died in Nashville, 22 May, 1858, aged 32 years. 
His wife died 13 April, 1837. He married for his second wife, 
in Georgetown, Ky., 12 February, 1840, Mary R., daughter of 
Kinsley and Mary Hall, of Exeter, N.H. ; by whom he had two 
sons and six daughters, of whom two daughters died before their 
father. The other children, with their mother, survived him. 

1818. — John Prentiss died in Baltimore, Md., 31 August, 
1861, aged 62 years. He rode into the city in a carriage with 
one of his students, from his residence at Medfield, about three 
miles distant; and, while crossing the Northern Central Railway 
near the junction of Cathedral and Biddle streets, his vehicle 
was run against by a train of cars : he was thrown out, and in- 
stantly killed. 

Mr. Prentiss was the third son and seventh child of Rev. 
Thomas (H.C. 1766) and Mary (Scollay) Prentiss, and was 
born in Medfield, Mass., 10 August, 1799. His father was 



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son of Rev. Joshua (H.C. 1738) and Mary (Angier) Prentiss, 
and was born in Holliston, Mass., 27 October, 1747; was 
ordained pastor of the church in Med field, 31 October, 1770 ; 
and died 28 February, 1814, aged 66 years. His mother was 
daughter of Dr. John Scollay, of Boston, where he held the 
office of town-clerk over forty years. She died 23 September, 
1841, aged 82 years. The subject of this notice pursued his 
preparatory studies for admission to college under the instruction 
of his father, until the death of the latter ; and, in April of the 
same year, he was at placed Phillips Academy in Andover, where 
he completed his studies. In his sophomore year, he taught 
school in Wayland, then called East Sudbury; and, in his 
junior and senior years, in Medfield. He graduated with a fair 
reputation for scholarship, and with a character untainted by 
any of the vices of college-life, to the influences of which he 
had been exposed, without experience, or any knowledge of the 
world, and with no guide or protection but the principles of a 
pure religion and the precepts of a stern morality breathed from 
the lips and illustrated by the life of one of the best and tender- 
est of mothers. Notwithstanding the practice of the strictest 
economy throughout his college course, he found himself, at its 
close, not only without resources, but encumbered with debts 
which had been unavoidably contracted. To acquit himself of 
his obligations, and to furnish him with the means of prosecuting 
the study of theology, which he had chosen as a profession, he 
was induced to accept an appointment to the charge of the 
Female High School in Charlestown, Mass., then just insti- 
tuted. Here, with one female assistant, he had intrusted to his 
instruction and management three hundred pupils. That he 
discharged the duties of this arduous office acceptably, may be 
inferred from the fact, that, at the close of the academic year, 
the engagement was renewed, and was continued, until, having 
accomplished the object for which he had assumed it, in the 
winter of 1819-20 he relinquished it to enter the Divinity 
School at Cambridge. His connection with the school continued 
until the autumn of 1822. During this time, his studies were 
occasionally interrupted by ill health ; and for several months 

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were partially suspended by his having the charge of the pri- 
vate female school of Rev. Henry Colman (D.C. 1805), in 
Boston, who, from severe sickness, was compelled to relinquish 
it for that period. During this engagement, he was a member 
of Mr. Colman's family ; and the acquaintance thus begun 
ripened into an intimate friendship, which ended only with the 
death of this distinguished clergyman and accomplished gentle- 
man and scholar at Islington, near London, 17 August, 1841* , 
whilst engaged in agricultural inquiries in Europe, under the 
auspices of the government of Massachusetts. At the close of 
his theological course of study, Mr. Prentiss was compelled, 
from bodily indisposition, to abandon for a time, as he then sup- 
posed, the profession which he had chosen, and the preparatory 
studies for which he had just completed. The greater part of 
the year 1823 he passed at his native village, under his mother's 
roof, in the vain hope of recovering his health. Early in the 
winter of this year, he was induced, by the advice of his physi- 
cian, to try the effect of a milder climate; and accepted the 
appointment of a tutorship in Baltimore College, Md. His 
health being measurably restored by his residence in a southern 
climate, in the spring of 1824 he took charge, as principal, of 
one of the state academies of Maryland at Garrison Forest, 
about ten miles from the city of Baltimore, in Baltimore county ; 
where he remained until the autumn of 1825. With health 
re-established, and with the reputation of being a faithful and 
successful teacher, at the solicitation of many parents whose 
children had been under his instruction, he removed to Balti- 
more at the above date, and opened a private school for boys ; 
in which he was eminently successful. The hazard he would 
run in exposing himself to the rigors of a northern climate for- 
bade his return to New England to reside ; whilst the social 
relations he had formed, and the reputation he had established 
as a teacher, induced him to make Baltimore his place of resi- 
dence, and school-teaching his occupation for life. In the 
summer of 1833, he was elected president of the collegiate, and 
principal of the academic, department of Baltimore College ; 
which situation he retained for eight years. During this period, 



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he was most laboriously and successfully employed in the direc- 
tion of tins institution, having under his charge a large number 
of pupils, and associated with him many assistant instructors. 
Convinced by much reflection, and long experience and obser- 
vation, that the business of instruction could and ought to be 
conducted without resort to corporal punishment, in entering on 
the duties of his office, in a public statement of the principles 
on which the institution would be conducted, he rejected entirely 
the use of the rod and all physical infliction as a means of disci- 
pline. This plan was a novel one, — one which it was believed 
had never been attempted in any similar institution in this 
country. It was regarded by most persons, at the outset, as 
visionary and impracticable, and the public avowal of it as, of 
course, impolitic. Its practicability was, however, abundantly 
demonstrated, and the expediency of its adoption completely 
vindicated, by an experiment of eight years' continuance, — the 
period of Mr. Prentiss's administration of the affairs of this 
department of the university of Maryland. In 1841, in con- 
sequence of his health being sensibly impaired by the great 
amount of labor inseparable from the proper discharge of 
the duties of the office which he held, he resigned his situa- 
tion, and retired to a country-seat which he had purchased, 
three and a half miles from the city of Baltimore ; where he 
continued to reside during the remainder of his life. As the 
occupation to which he had devoted so much of his life had 
become an essential part of his being, he here opened a private 
boarding-school for boys. By uniting several occupations and 
amusements with the more serious and sedentary duties of in- 
struction, his health was completely restored. This place he 
named Medfield, for his native town. Here, in a family that 
afforded the attractions of home to his pupils, he labored 
modestly and diligently, for twenty years, in the formation of 
mental and moral character. Himself of that broad church which 
never separates itself, for any creed, from any soul, but finds in 
every soul an opportunity for Christian charity and work, with- 
out professions he silently led his scholars towards Christian 
faith and practice, by their expression of his own beautiful and 



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gentle life. He had the rare faculty of being both teacher and 
friend ; and the strong ties that hound him to his pupils through 
the years were seldom broken. A conversation so even and so 
gentle made his discipline strong; and even reproof from him lost 
its smart and provocation, it was uttered from so gentle lips. 

That he had no sympathy with the unnatural and infamous 
rebellion which has been brought upon our country by ambitious, 
political, and unprincipled demagogues, will be plainly seen by 
the following extract from a letter, which he wrote a few days 
before his death, to a near relative in Massachusetts : " I can 
hardly believe that I have sunk so low in your estimation as to 
be suspected, for an instant, of having any participation or 
sympathy with this execrable Southern rebellion. There are, 
as you suppose, some good Union people here. I am proud to 
be classed as a humble member of that honorable fraternity. 
Moreover, I am happy to add, on most satisfactory evidence, 
that the Unionists constitute a decided majority in the state of 
Maryland, and at least a very large and most respectable minor- 
ity in the monumental city, or mob-town, as you may choose to 
call Baltimore ! God save our commonwealth, if she should 
ever be so forgetful of her interest or her honor as to make a 
league with those states which are in arms against their gov- 
ernment ! As to our city, no power, human or divine, could 
save it from utter desolation and ruin in that event." 

Mr. Prentiss married, 22 December, 1825, Amelia F. Ken- 
nedy, of Baltimore. The issue of this marriage was nine 
children, — five sons and four daughters, — of whom four sons 
only survived him. The oldest son is a physician, and resides on 
his father's estate. His wife died February, 1857 ; and he mar- 
ried for his second wife, July, 1858, Sarah Watson, of Nan- 
tucket, Mass., who survives him. By his second wife he had 
one child, which died when a few months old. 

1818. — Rev. Charles Robixsox died in Groton, Mass., 
9 April, 1862, aged 68 years. He was the eldest son of Caleb 
and Judith (Robinson) Robinson, and was born in Exeter, N.H., 
25 July, 1793. His father was a native of Exeter ; as were also 
his grandfather and great-grandfather on the paternal side, both 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 413 

of whom bore the Christian name of Caleb. His grandfather was 
a major or a lieutenant-colonel of the New-Hampshire militia, 
.in the battle of Bunker Hill. He afterwards served as an officer 
in the continental army during the revolution, and died soon 
after his return from the war. His mother was born in Glou- 
cester, Mass. Her father's name was John Robinson. He was 
an Englishman, and followed the sea as a profession. He settled 
in Gloucester, and married Hannah Lane. They had four 
children, — all daughters ; and his wife died in giving birth to 
Robinson's mother. Her husband was then at sea ; and, when he 
returned, the news of the death of his wife made such an impres- 
sion upon him, that he sickened, and died a few days afterwards, 
— leaving four fatherless and motherless children, who were 
taken and cared for by their grandmother Lane, until the oldest 
was married, and removed to Exeter. Robinson's mother, at 
that time but a child, went with her. His father died at the 
age of about 32 years, leaving his wife, with four young children, 
without property : but she was a woman of very extraordinary 
physical and mental powers, — of great endurance, industry, and 
ingenuity, — which enabled her to bring up her family through 
great hardships, until they were able to help themselves ; and 
then Robinson and two sisters devoted themselves to the attain- 
ment of an education somewhat above the humble condition of 
their lives. His mother lived to the age of 87 years, almost 
always enjoying good health. 

He was fitted for college at Exeter Academy. He held a 
high rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated with honors. 
After leaving college, he went to Maryland, where he was presi- 
dent of Washington College for one year. He then returned, 
and studied theology at the Divinity School in . Cambridge. 
He was ordained over the Unitarian church in Eastport, Me., 
30 October, 1822 ; resigned his charge, 1 April, 1825. He was 
installed at Groton, 1 November, 1826 ; and resigned in Octo- 
ber, 1838 ; installed at Medfield, 16 October, 1839 ; resigned 
1 September, 1850; installed at Peterborough, N.H., 4 De- 
cember, 1851 ; resigned 24 June, 1860. He then returned 
to Groton, where he resided until his death. 



414 NECROLOGY OP ALUMNI [18G1-62. 

lie married, for his first wife, 3 July, 1827, Jane Park, only 
daughter of Stewart J. Park, of Groton ; and had one child, 
Jane, — horn 17 March, 1<S28, — who lived only five days. His 
wife died 23 March, 1828. 

lie married, for his second wife, 1 January, 1<S30, Diantha 
Prentiss, daughter of Hon. John Prentiss, of Kcene, N.H. 
She died at Medfield, 18 May, 1843, — no children. 

lie married, for his third wife, 11 September, 1844, Sally 
May Cotton, daughter of Rev. Ward Cotton (H.C. 1793), of 
Boylston, Mass., and had by her two children; viz., Sarah 
Jane, born 29 July, 1845, — died 8 October, 1847; and Charles 
Cotton, born 22 May, 1849, — who survived him. His wife 
died 6 June, 1849. 

He married, for his fourth wife, 1 September, 1850, Eliza- 
beth Jane Burton, daughter of Jonathan Burton, of Wilton, 
N.H., and had one child; viz., William Burton, born 3 April, 
1854 ; who, with his mother, survived him. 

1818. — Dr. Simon Whitney died in Framingham, Mass., 
2 September, 1861, aged 62 years. He was the youngest 
but one of nine children of Nathaniel Ruggles and Abigail 
(Frothingham) Whitney, and was born in Watertown, Mass., 
30 October, 1798. His father was son of Simon and Mary 
(Ruggles) Whitney; was born in Watertown, 19 March, 
1759 ; was a teacher in early life, afterwards a trader and 
farmer: died 17 December, 1833. His mother was daughter 
of James Frothingham, for many years deacon of Dr. Jede- 
diah Morse's church in Charlestown, Mass. The subject of this 
notice began his preparatory studies for college under the instruc- 
tion of Abiel Jaques (H.C. 1807), at Newton Corner, Mass., 
where he remained about one year ; and completed his studies 
under Samuel Hunt, of Watertown (H.C. 1765). Mr. Hunt 
was born in Watertown, 25 October, 1745 ; was appointed 
master of the Boston Latin School, 8 November, 1776, where 
he remained until January, 1805 ; when he resigned, and re- 
turned to his native place. He afterwards went to the West ; 
and died in Lexington, Ky., 8 October, 1816, aged 71 years. 
After leaving college, Mr. Whitney taught school six months in 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 415 

Brighton ; then went to Charlestown, where he taught six 
months ; and there he began the study of medicine, under the 
instruction of Dr. William Johnson Walker (H.C. 1810), 
where he remained until 1822, when he received his degree of 
M.D. ; and established himself in Framingham, where he passed 
the remainder of his life. He soon acquired an extensive prac- 
tice, and gained the confidence of the community in which he 
resided. His practice was in accordance with the plain principles 
of the science of medicine. He dealt in no occult sciences, nor 
patent medicines, which none but the initiated could understand. 
His fine powers of observation, perception, and discrimination, 
enabled him to gather up, in the range of his extensive practice, 
a large amount of experience and practical knowledge ; and 
made him always welcome to the chamber of sickness and suffer- 
ing, which his genial spirit and manners brought confidence to, 
and brightened with the light of faith and hope. As a citizen, 
he was honored and trusted ; for he was always ready, with 
heart and hand and purse, to do any good word or work. In 
the Christian church, he was a strong pillar and a beautiful ex- 
ample, in ever treading in the footsteps of " Him who went 
about doing good." He was repeatedly honored by offices of 
honor and trust. He was surgeon of the regiment in that 
vicinity five years ; captain of an infantry company ; leader of 
the choir thirty years ; was frequently elected selectman, and 
chairman of the board ; was a justice of the peace for fifteen 
years ; and was representative to the state legislature from 
Framingham in 1853. 

He married, 6 May, 1824, Mary Walker, daughter of 
Timothy Walker, Esq., of Charlestown, and sister of Dr. 
William J. Walker, w\th whom he studied medicine. The issue 
of this marriage was eight children : viz., 1. Elizabeth Walker, 
born 8 April, 1825 ; married, 30 August, 1845, John W. 
Osgood, M.D., a practising physician in Saxonville, Mass., who 
have had three children, — two sons and one daughter. 2. Mary, 
born 16 August, 1826, and died the next day. 3. Allston 
Waldo, a graduate at the Harvard Medical School in 1852, and 
a practising physician in South Framingham. 4. Abby Walker, 



416 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1861-62. 

born 23 July, 1829. 5. Henry Augustus, born 11 January, 
1831 ; was drowned while bathing, 22 July, 1840. 6. Harriet 
Lincoln, born 3 October, 1833. 7. Clarence, born 1 January, 
1838. 8. James Bradish, born 22 August, 1843. His wife 
survived him. 

1818. — Hon. John Hubbabd "Welkins died in Boston, 
5 December, 18(51, aged 67 years, lacking five days. He was 
the youngest son of Deacon Samuel and Dorcas (Towne) Wil- 
kins, and was born in Amherst, N.H., 10 December, 1794. 
He was also grandson of Rev. Daniel Wilkins (H.C. 1736), 
the first settled minister of his native town. It was the inten- 
tion of Deacon Wilkins that his youngest son should become a 
merchant. He accordingly left home early in life, and was em- 
ployed in the store of a Mr. Randall, in the neighboring town of 
Mount Vernon. After remaining there about a year, he went 
to Boston, and was employed in the store of Mr. David S. 
Eaton, on Long Wharf, where he continued until the war with 
England beo;an, in 1812. He then conceived the idea of ob- 
taining a more thorough education, and, having purchased some 
books, returned to his native town with the view of preparing 
for college. His father told him that a college education would 
be very expensive ; that he was unable to assist him ; and that, 
if he entered college, he would not succeed in going through the 
course. He replied, that he thought he would try. He was 
fitted for college by Rev. Humphrey Moore (H.C. 1799), of 
Milford, N.H. He attained a distinguished rank of scholarship 
in his class, and graduated with high honors. Immediately 
after leaving college, he was appointed preceptor of Taunton 
Academy, where he remained one year. He then entered the 
Divinity School in Cambridge, w r here he studied theology two 
years. In 1821, he came to Boston, and entered the book- 
store of Halliard, Gray, and Co., as a salesman ; and, in 1826, 
he was admitted as a partner in that well-known publishing 
house, where he remained until 1832, when he withdrew. The 
next year he formed a copartnership with Mr. Charles Bolles, 
under the style of John H. Wilkins and Co., as paper-dealers, 
in Water Street. In 1835, Mr. Bolles withdrew. Mr. Wilkins 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 417 

then took in as a partner Mr. Richard B. Carter, and they 
continued business under the firm of Wilkins and Carter ; and, 
in 1844, Hon. Alexander H. Rice (U.C. 1844), for two years 
mayor of Boston, and afterwards a representative in Congress, 
was admitted as a partner, under the style of Wilkins, Carter, and 
Co. In his business, Mr. Wilkins displayed great talent and 
stern integrity. He was a skilful financier, was very success- 
ful, and acquired an ample competence. In 1853, the National 
Bank was established in Boston. Mr. Wilkins, having been 
elected its president, withdrew from mercantile business, and de- 
voted himself to the interests of that institution ; which he did 
with rare ability. He held the office of president until October, 
1861, when, at the annual meeting, he, on account of ill health, 
declined to be a candidate for re-election. 

Mr. Wilkins was a most useful and valued citizen, and the' 
estimation in which he was held was often manifested. He was 
elected a member of the Boston common-council in 1840, 
1841, 1842, and 1843 ; was an alderman in 1844, 1848, and 
1849 ; was elected to the senate in the state legislature in 1850 
and 1851 ; and was a member of the state convention in 1853. 
He was for five years president of the Cochituate Water Board. 
He was once a candidate for mayor, but failed of an election by 
a few votes. 

In 1822, he published a work entitled " Elements of Astron- 
omy," for the use of schools and academies. This treatise met 
with a rapid sale. The encouragement 'he received induced him 
to correct and somewhat enlarge his work; and, in 1823, he 
issued a second edition. Subsequently, the book was stereo- 
typed. In 1822, the celebrated mathematician, Warren Col- 
burn (H.C. 1820), wrote thus to Mr. Wilkins : "I have 
examined your treatise on astronomy, and I think that subject is 
better explained, and that more matter is contained in this, than 
in any other book of the kind with which I am acquainted." 
During the discussion of the subject of introducing water into 
the city of Boston, Mr. Wilkins took a prominent part. He 
wrote several pamphlets on the question, which were printed, 
and contributed many valuable articles in the newspapers. At 

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the consecration, 24 June, L852, of Mount-Hope Cemetery, in 

Dorchester and West Roxbury, lie acted as president of the 
corporation, and made some introductory remarks, which were 
published in the pamphlet containing the order of services. He 
was one of the most active and efficient members in establishing 
the New-Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church in Boston, of which 
his classmate, Rev. Thomas Worcester, D.D., is the pastor. 
The total amount of his donations to the society, it is said, were 
not less than fifty thousand dollars. 

He married, 17 November, 1826, Mrs. Thomasine E. Minot ; 
she heing a sister of the late Professor William Cranch Bond, 
of Harvard College. He had no children: His wife survives 
him . 

1819. — Rev. William Farmer died in Lunenburg, Mass., 
24 June, 1862, aged 69 years. He was son of Jonas and 
Mary (Whitney) Farmer, and was born in Townsend, Mass., 
24 February, 1793. He was fitted for college at the academies 
at New Ipswich, N.H., and Groton, Mass. After leaving col- 
lege, he studied divinity with Rev. Thomas Beede, of Wilton, 
N.H. (H.C. 1798), and Rev. Eli Smith, of Hollis, N.H. 
(B.C. 1792) ; but completed his theological studies at the 
Divinity School at Cambridge. He was ordained over the Uni- 
tarian church in Belgrade, Me., 18 May, 1831. Here he 
remained about six years, when he resigned his pastoral charge. 
He preached afterwards, about two years, in Dresden, Me. ; 
and, for a year or more, in various places, — in West Boylston 
and Lunenburg, Mass., in Fitzwilliam, N.H., and Pomfret, Vt. 
He had been an invalid for many years, and suffered often from 
pulmonary hemorrhage and other serious symptoms before he 
relinquished preaching. His decline was very gradual ; and his 
bodily sufferings, which towards the last were particularly irri- 
tating, were borne with great patience. He was a true Christian, 
and was warmly interested in every thing that concerned his 
Alma Mater. 

He married, 15 October, 1851, Mrs. Lovina Jackson. 
They had no children. His wife survived him. 

1819. — Joseph Hardy Prince died in Boston, 18 Novem- 



1861-62] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 419 

ber, 1861, aged 60 years. He was son of Capt. Henry and 
Sarah (Millet) Prince, and was born in Salem, Mass., 7 June, 
1801. He was fitted for college partly by Abiel Chandler 
(H.C 1806), and partly by Samuel Adams (H.C. 1806). 
After leaving college, be studied law in the office of Hon. John 
Pickering, of Salem (VI. C. 1796) ; and began the practice 
of his profession in Salem. He was a representative to the 
state legislature from Salem, in 1825. In 1834, he was ap- 
pointed an inspector in the Boston custom-house. He was 
private-secretary for Com. Eliot, of the frigate " Constitution," in 
1835, on the voyage to France to bring home the Hon. Edward 
Livingston, the American minister, on account of the differ- 
ences with that nation. On his return, he pursued the practice 
of law in Boston. In 1848, he was appointed to the surveyor's 
department of customs. After leaving that office, he resumed 
his profession, which he continued to the end of his life. He 
was ever tenaciously devoted to the democratic party, and was 
an early advocate of Andrew Jackson. He delivered an oration 
on the 4th of July, 1828, before the Washington Society. 
Afterwards, when Andrew Dunlap moved that a copy be re- 
quested for the press, Mr. Prince said, "If I have done any 
thing towards rekindling the fire of the old democracy, if I have 
contributed a.pebble to the pile in the cause of principle against 
corruption, I shall be satisfied." 

Mr. Prince married, late in life, Mary Hunt, of Salem ; but 
had no children. 

1821. — Dr. Jonas Henry Lane died in Boston, 5 Sep- 
tember, 1861, aged 61 years. He was son of Jonas and 
Eunice (Kendall) Lane, and was born in Lancaster, Mass., 
28 January, 1800. His name was originally Henry Lane ; 
but, by act of the legislature, he was allowed to prefix the name 
of Jonas, which he did from respect to his father. He began 
his preparatory studies for entering college at Groton Academy, 
Avhere he remained one term ; then he went to Leicester Acad- 
emy ; and he completed his preparatory studies at the scientific- 
school in Lancaster, under the instruction of Jared Sparks (H.C. 
1815), afterwards president of Harvard College. He attained a 



420 \i:< OOLOGY OF ALUMNI [1861-G2. 

distinguished rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated with 

high honors. He studied medicine with Dr. Silas Pearson, of 

Westminster, Mass. He was, while studying his profession, for 
some time hpuse-physician at the Massachusetts General Hos- 
pital in Boston, and subsequently an assistant at the McLean 
Asylum for the Insane, at Somen ille. On receiving his degree 
of M.D., in 1*2(1, he began the practice of his profession in 
Boston, where he passed the remainder of his life; haying 
attained a highly respectable rank in his profession, gained an 
extensive practice, and reaped a rich reward for his skill, fidelity 
to his profession, and his amiable and exemplary life. Modest 
in his deportment, he never entered public life, or sought any 
office. He held the even tenor of his way ; was as faithful and 
diligent in his attendance on the poor to whom he was called, 
and who were unable to compensate him for his services, as he 
was to those who had abundant wealth to reward him. He was 
a cheerful, happy Christian ; and was emphatically " the be- 
loved physician." 

He married, 6 October, 1830, Frances Ann Brown, of Nor- 
wich, Conn. The issue of this marriage was three daughters 
and one son ; of whom the son and two of the daughters, with 
their mother, survived him. 

1824. — John Makk Gourgas, of Quincy, died in Box- 
bury, Mass., 28 June, 18G2, aged 58 years. He was son of 
John Mark and Margaret (Sampson) Gourgas, and was born 
at Milton Upper Mills, Mass., 25 March, 1804. He was fitted 
for college at Exeter (N.H.) Academy. He studied law in the 
office of Hon. Lemuel Shaw (H. C. 1800), and settled in 
Quincy. He was never married. 

1825. — Isaiah Thomas Avas lost at sea, probably the last 
week in February, 18G2. He was the son of Isaiah and Mary 
(Weld) Thomas, and was born in Worcester, Mass., 29 Novem- 
ber, 1805. His father was the oldest son of Isaiah Thomas, 
the eminent printer, and author of the " History of Printing ; " 
and was born in Boston, 5 September, 1773. His mother was 
daughter of Edward Weld, of Boston. The subject of this 
notice was fitted for college at Leicester Academy. After grad- 



1861-62.] OF HARVAED COLLEGE. 421 

nating, he went to Cincinnati, O., where he was, for a time, 
editor of the " American " newspaper, and afterwards was a 
merchant in that city ; thence he removed to New York. In 
January, 1862, he was appointed consul to Algiers, and took 
passage in the ship " Milwaukie," Capt. Rhodes, from New York 
for Havre, with his only daughter and two of his sons, thence 
to proceed to Algiers. The ship sailed on the 21st of February, 
and was never afterwards heard from. It is supposed she foun- 
dered, on the 28th of the same month, in a gale which occurred 
at that time. 

He married, 30 May, 1831, in Cincinnati, Mary Ann 
Ruder, of that city ; by whom he had four sons and five daugh- 
ters, — of whom four of his daughters had deceased. Two sons 
only survived him, — one in a mercantile house in Boston, 
and the other in the army. His wife died about nine years 
since. 

1827. — Cornelius Conway Felton, of Cambridge, 
Mass., died in Chester, Penn., 26 February, 1862, aged 
54 years. He left Cambridge about three weeks previous- 
ly for Washington, D.C., and stopped at the residence of 
his brother, Samuel Morse Felton (IT. C. 1834), where he 
was suddenly taken ill with a disease of the heart, of which he 
had several times before had attacks. He was son of Cornelius 
Conway and Anna (Morse) Felton, and was born in West 
Newbury, Mass., 6 November, 1807. His father was born in 
Marblehead. His mother was born in Newbury, died in 1825 ; 

and his father married for his second wife Mrs. Boynton, 

whose first husband was a farmer in Saugus, Mass. She was 
a Torrey, of Scituate, Mass. She died many years ago at the 
McLean Asylum in Somerville, Mass. In 1815, he moved 
with his father to the corner of Chelsea, which belonged to a 
parish in Saugus. His father lived in great poverty during the 
war of 1812, although he had a good business as a chaise- 
maker, to which he served his apprenticeship with Mr. Abner 
Greenleaf, of West Newbury. But the whole establishment was 
broken up by the war; and, to earn a livelihood, he became a 
toll-keeper at Chelsea, on the Newburyport turnpike. When he 



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married his second wife, he took her (arm, with its encumbrances, 
in Saugus, and curried it on several years; then be sold it, and 
went tn Charlestown, where be was employed in the construc- 
tion of the Warren bridge, of which he had the charge, and was 
one of the toll-keepers of it. When the Fitchburg railroad was 
put in operation, he was contractor for all the wood burned 
on the road, and at the same time bought a farm in Littleton, 
Mass., where he died. 

From his early youth, young Felton was very fond of study ; 
which propensity was encouraged by his mother. His father, 
seeing his passion for learning, thought he might afford to send 
him to school one quarter ; and he was placed in the academy 
at Bradford, Mass., under Benjamin Grcenleaf, and under the 
tutelage of the venerable Joshua Coffin. From Bradford, he 
returned to the town-school in Saugus. Early in the summer 
of 1822, his father sent him to the private school of Mr. Simeon 
Putnam, in North Andover (H.C. 1811). When he went there, 
he intended to study one quarter. Mr. Putnam was an enthusi- 
astic scholar ; a great lover of the classics ; a man very austere in 
his manners, but gentle and kind to all who wanted to study, 
and awakened an extravagant enthusiasm in all his pupils. After 
some time, knowing Felton's father's circumstances, he called 
him up to him one day, and told him he wanted him to go to 
college, and would trust him for his tutorage until he could repay 
it. He therefore remained at the school one year and three 
months. In that period, he read Sallust four times, Cicero's 
Orations four times, Virgil six times, Grrcca Minora five or 
six times, and the poetry of it, until he could repeat nearly the 
whole by memory ; the Annals and History of Tacitus, Justin, 
Cornelius Nepos ; the Anabasis of Xenophon ; four books of Rob^ 
inson's Selections from the Iliad ; the Greek Testament four 
times : besides writing a translation of one of the Gospels, and a 
translation of the whole of Grotius de Veritate, which he carried 
in manuscript to college. He also wrote a volume of about 
three hundred pages of Latin exercises, and one of about two 
hundred pages of Greek exercises. He also studied carefully all 
the mathematics and geography requisite to enter college. These 



1861-62.] OF HARVAED COLLEGE. 423 

severe studies greatly affected his health. Still, while in college, 
he studied a great deal of extra Greek ; also modern languages — 
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese — and some 
Hebrew. In the winter vacation of his freshman year, he was 
employed in the college library. In the sophomore year, he 
taught school in Concord ; in the junior year, in Bolton ; during 
the rest of the junior year, or six months, he taught mathematics 
in Round-Hill School, kept by Cogswell and Bancroft? in North- 
ampton. He was also one of the editors of the " Harvard Regis- 
ter." After graduating, he was engaged for two years with his 
classmates, Cleveland and Sweetser, in the charge of the Living- 
ston-county high-school at Geneseo, N.Y. He was then 
appointed Latin tutor in Harvard College ; and the next year 
was appointed tutor in Greek, which office he held two years ; 
and, in 1834, he was appointed Eliot Professor of Greek Litera- 
ture. This professorship he held until the 16th of February, 
1860, when he was chosen president of the college. In 1833, he 
published an edition of Homer, with English notes and Flaxman's 
illustrations, which has since passed through several editions, 
with revisions and emendations. In 1840, a translation by him 
of Menzell's work on " German Literature," in three volumes, 
was published among Ripley's " Specimens of Foreign Literature." 
In the same year, he gave to the public a " Greek Reader," con- 
taining selections in prose and verse from Greek authors, with 
English notes, and a vocabulary : this has since been frequently 
reprinted. In 1841, he published an edition of the "Clouds" 
of Aristophanes, with an introduction and notes ; since revised, 
and republished in England. In 1843, he aided Prof. Sears and 
Prof. Edwards in the preparation of a work on classical studies, 
containing essays on classical subjects, mostly translated from 
the German. He assisted Prof. Longfellow in the preparation 
of the "Poets and Poetry of Europe," which appeared in 1845. 
In 1847, editions of the " Panegyricus " of Isocrates, and of the 
" Agamemnon " of ^Eschylus, with introductions and English 
notes, were published by him. A second edition of the former 
appeared in 1854, and of the latter in 1859. In 1849, he trans- 
lated, from the French, the work of Prof. Guyot on physical 



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geography, called "The Earth and .Man:" and, in the same 

year, he published an edition of the " Birds " of Aristophanes, 
with an introduction and English notes, which was republished 
in Kmdand. In 1852, he edited a selection from the writings of 
Prof. Popkin, his predecessor in the Eliot professorship, with 
an introductory biographical notice. In the same year, he pub- 
lished a volume of selections from the Greek historians, arranged 
in the order of events. The period from April, 1853, to May, 
1854, was spent by him in a European tour ; in the course of 
which he visited Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, 
Italy, and Greece ; giving about five months to the last-named 
country, visiting its most interesting localities, and carefully 
studying its architectural remains. In 1855, he revised, for pub- 
lication in the United States, Smith's "History of Greece," adding 
a preface, notes, and a continuation from the Roman conquest to 
the present time. In the same year, an edition of Lord Carlisle's 
" Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters " was prepared by him for 
the American press, with notes, illustrations, and a preface. In 
1856, a selection by him from modern Greek writers, in prose 
and verse, was published. Besides the above, he compiled 
an elementary work on Greek and Roman metres ; was the au- 
thor of a life of Gen. Eaton, in Sparks's "American Biography;" 
of various occasional addresses ; and of numerous contributions 
to the " North-American Review," " Christian Examiner," and 
other periodical publications. A series of vigorous articles on 
spiritualism, which appeared in the "Boston Courier" in 1857—8, 
were understood to have proceeded from his pen. He delivered 
three courses of lectures before the Lowell Institute in Boston, 
on subjects connected with the history and literature of Greece. 
In the summer of 1858, he made a second visit to Europe, partly 
on account of his impaired health, and partly to complete some 
investigations into the language, topography, and education of 
Greece. He was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Edu- 
cation, and one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution ; a 
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society ; and a corresponding 
member of the Archaeological Society of Athens. The degree 



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of doctor of laws was conferred upon him by Amherst College 
in 1848. He was a gentleman of genial and social habits, and 
was warmly loved by a large circle of friends. 

He married, in the summer of 1838, Mary Whitney, daugh- 
ter of Asa Whitney, a merchant of Boston. She died 12 April, 
1845, leaving two daughters. He married, for his second wife, 
28 September, 1846, Mary Louisa Cary, daughter of Hon. 
Thomas Greaves and Mary (Perkins) Cary, of Boston. By 
his second wife he had two sons and one daughter, who, with 
their mother, survived him. 

1829. — Josiah Quincy Loring died in Weston, Mass., 
6 April, 1862, 'aged 51 years, lacking four days. He was the 
youngest son of Elijah and Abigail (Rand) Loring, and was 
born in Boston, 10 April, 1811. He was a pupil of the some- 
what celebrated Lawson Lyon, of Boston (H.C. 1805) ; but 
subsequently entered the Boston Latin School. At this school 
he was fitted for college. He entered in 1825. He left college 
at the end of his sophomore year ; but rejoined his class at the 
beginning of his senior year, and graduated with them. In 
November, 1829, he entered the Law School at Cambridge. 
Here he remained one year ; when he relinquished the study of 
the law, and passed the winter of 1830—31 in Boston, pursuing 
some favorite mathematical studies with Rev. Tilly Brown Hay- 
ward, of Boston (H.C. 1820). In the summer of 1831, he 
taught a school at Jamaica Plain, Poxbury ; and in the autumn 
following went into his father's counting-room, having at length 
reached the occupation he had most desired. He did not, how- 
ever, long pursue mercantile business. He finally removed 
to Weston, where he had purchased a farm ; and was engaged in 
agriculture the remainder of his life. He was possessed of excel- 
lent natural gifts, of a fine literary taste, and of many scholarly 
acquirements. He was a man of the most unbending integrity, 
of a high sense of honor, and of most benevolent feelings, man- 
ifesting themselves in many a generous deed. If he had faults, 
others were not made the sufferers, except as they sympathized 
with his suffering and pain. Intimately known to but few, 
those few will never forget his many kind and generous qualities. 

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426 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1861-62. 

Ilf married, 27 December, 1849, Miss Christian W. Renton, 
daughter of Dr. Peter Kenton, of Boston. They had fourchil- 
dren : of whom tlirce, with their mother, survived him. 

1831. — Alexander Ramsai Bradley died in Fryeburg, 
Me., 16 February, 1862, aged 52 years. He was the third 
son of Robert and Abigail (Bailey) Bradley, and was born in 
Fryeburg, 5 November, 1809. His father was born in Con- 
cord, N.H., 17 June, 1772; removed to Fryeburg in 1801, 
where he resided until his death. His great-great-grandfather, 
Samuel Bradley, was killed by the Indians, near Concord, N.H., 
11 August, 1746. His maternal grandfather was Col. Ward 
Bailey, of Lcmington, Vt. ; and his maternal grandmother was 
Mary Sargeant, sister of Hon. Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant 
(H.C. 1750), formerly chief-justice of the Supreme Court of 
Massachusetts. The early studies of young Bradley were pur- 
sued under the instruction of Rev. Benjamin Glazier Willey 
(Bowd. C. 1822), of Conway, N.H. ; in whose house he passed 
several years, preparatory to entering Phillips Academy in Ex- 
eter, N.H., where he was fitted for college. While in college, 
he was remarkable for his social amenity, and for his athletic 
characteristics. After graduating, he pursued his professional 
studies in the office of his uncle, Col. Samuel Ayer Bradley 
(D.C. 1799), who was, at that time, in partnership with John 
S. Barrows, Esq., of Fryeburg. He there acquired a good 
knowledge of law as a science, although having a distaste 
for the practice, as he had also for the details of business ; the 
characteristics of his mind being rather for general literary pur- 
suits. In 1835, on motion of Hon. Charles Stewart Daveis, 
he was admitted to the bar ; but, for some years, was engaged 
in the speculations in timber-lands, in which, at that time, the 
fortunes of so many were embarked. More fortunate, if not 
wiser, than numbers who make similar ventures, he returned to 
the practice of law with some small capital yet remaining ; and 
thenceforth attended to his professional duties, without much in- 
terruption, until the time of his death. His practice, though 
somewhat extensive, both in his own state and in New Hamp- 
shire, was never a source of much profit to himself; the chief 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 427 

reason of which was his neglect of keeping proper accounts, 
and collecting his dues. In his social and domestic relations, 
he was fortunately and happily situated. He married, Novem- 
ber, 1835, Mary O. Barrows, daughter of William Barrows, 
Esq., of Yarmouth, Me. ; by whom he had thirteen children, 
— ten sons and three daughters. Two sons and two daughters 
died at an early age. His wife died 27 December, 1861. 
There are eiijht sons and one daughter livino;. The first and 
second sons graduated in the same class at Bowdoin College in 
1858 ; the elder of whom, Samuel Ayer Bradley, is now pro- 
fessor of mathematics in Westei'n Union College, Fulton, 111. : 
the second, Alexander Stuart Bradley, who has been engaged 
in surveying western government-lands for the last two or three 
years, came home in the falltof 1861 to see his sick parents ; and, 
in consequence of their decease, remained to take care of the 
younger members of the family, and pursued the study of law. 

The attachment of Mr. Bradley for his wife was one that 
years, and the care and trouble attendant upon providing for a 
large family, never diminished, but strengthened ; and her death, 
which occurred after a lingering illness of consumption, entirely 
prostrated him. He seldom left his room after that event ; and 
there is no doubt that the final attack of the disorder which 
proved fatal to him was brought on by excessive grief at her 
loss. A week before his death, it was evident that the faculties 
of his mind were giving way ; and he did not regain posses- 
sion of them during life ; passing into total unconsciousness a 
few hours before he expired. All who were intimate with him 
bore testimony to the unusual amount of general knowledge 
which he possessed, which rendered him exceedingly entertaining 
and instructive in his social intercourse with them ; and to his 
high character as an honorable and upright man. 

1832. — Rev. Charles Mason died in Boston, 23 March, 
1862, aged 49 years. He was son of Hon. Jeremiah (Y.C. 
1788) and Mary (Means) Mason, and was born in Portsmouth, 
N.H., 25 July, 1812. His father, who was an eminent jurist, 
and one of the most brilliant members of the bar, was born in 
Lebanon, Conn., 27 April, 1768 ; and died in Boston, 14 Octo- 



428 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1861-62. 

ber, 1848. The subject of this notice was fitted for college by 
Rev. Andrew Preston Peabody (H.C. L826). He held a high 
rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated with honors. 
Alter leaving college, he began the study of theology at the 
seminary at Andover, and completed his course of studies at 
the New-York Episcopal Seminary. lie was ordained as dea- 
con, in Boston, 31 July, 1836. lie was inducted rector of the 
Episcopal church in Salem, Mass., 31 May, 1837, where he 
continued a faithful and beloved teacher of the gospel until 
30 May, 1847, when he resigned his pastoral charge, and 
removed to Boston. He was inducted rector of Grace Church, 
in Temple Street, Boston, in September, 1847. Being pos- 
sessed of a competence, his generous nature was evinced by the 
fact, that he gave his entire salary batek to the church. No cler- 
gyman in the city probably labored more earnestly than he to 
advance the cause of religion. He Avas of an amiable and 
social disposition, a kind husband and parent. The honorary 
degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by Harvard 
College in 1858 ; and he received the like honor from Trinity 
College in Hartford, Conn., the same year. He was elected a 
member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 10 November, 
1859. 

He married, 11 June, 1838, Susan Lawrence, daughter of 
Amos Lawrence, of Boston, by whom he had three daughters 
and one son. His wife died 2 December, 1844. He married 
for his second wife, 9 August, 1849, Anna Huntington Lyman, 
of Northampton, Mass. ; by whom he had two daughters and 
one son. All his children and his second wife survived him. 

1833. — Thomas Butler Pope died at his residence in 
Appleton Place, Roxbury, near Longwood, 15 January, 1862, 
aged 48 years, lacking seven days. He was son of Lemuel and 
Sally Belknap (Russell) Pope, and was born in Boston, 22 Jan- 
uary, 1814. His father was a very respectable citizen, and, for 
many years, president of the Boston Insurance Company. He 
died in Roxbury in 1851. His mother was sister of the late 
Nathaniel Pope Russell, Esq., and second cousin of Rev. Dr. 
Jeremy Belknap. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin 



1S61-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 429 

School, and entered at the beginning of the sophomore year. 
His course in college was acceptable. After graduating, he en- 
tered the Law School of the'University, and subsequently studied 
in the office of Hon. Charles Greely Loring, of Boston (H.C. 
1812) . In the summer of 1836, he was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar, and began to practise. In 1840, he formed a partnership 
with Charles Henry Parker (H.C. 1835), which continued until 
1853, and then terminated on that gentleman becoming treasurer 
of the Suffolk Savings Bank. 

Though beginning the practice of law under good auspices, 
and, in some respects, manifesting proficiency, he was tempted 
to enter into speculations quite foreign to his profession. In 
this he simply followed the example of many other lawyers : 
but, with him, his ventures met with disasters ; and, being con- 
tinued, resulted in bankruptcy of fortune, though his probity 
was unscathed. His affairs were so much embarrassed in 1858, 
the year when his class celebrated their " silver wedding," that 
he was with difficulty induced to attend the meeting. In 1859, 
he went into insolvency. His pecuniary misfortunes preyed 
upon him, and, it was thought, somewhat affected his mind for 
several of the last years of liis life. The disease of which he 
finally died was softening of the brain, which began to come on, 
it was thought, about two years before his death. On the 1st 
of April, 1861, whilst riding from Boston, he was seized with 
an attack of paralysis, affecting his lower limbs. He was con- 
veyed to his home, and never left it again. After lingering 
more than nine months, he died. 

He married, 3 June, 1846, Gertrude, daughter of the late 
John Binney, Esq., of Boston, who survived him. He left also 
three daughters, — Gertrude Binney, born 1847 ; Louisa Bin- 
ney, born 1855 ; and Mary Binney, born 1858. 

1837. — Dr. John Foster Williams Lane died in Boston, 
25 August, 1861, aged 44 years. He was son of Frederick 
and Eliza (Bonner) Lane, and Avas born in Boston, 14 June, 
1817. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, 
where a Franklin medal was awarded to him in 1831. He left 
the school at that time ; and, being only tliirteen years of age, 



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his parents, thinking be was too young to enter college, sent 
him to Europe ; and he spent two years in Italy and France, 
studying the modern languages. He returned in L833, and en- 
tered the freshman class. lie attained a high rank of scholar- 
ship in his elass, and graduated with distinction. After leaving 
college, he studied medicine under the instruction of Dr. Wins- 
low Lewis (II.C. 181'.)). On receiving his degree of M.D., 
he established himself in Boston, where he soon acquired an 
extensive practice. His prospects were flattering for attaining 
an eminent rank in his profession ; but he was very suddenly cut 
off in the prime of life. He married, 3 June, 1849, Phebe A. 
Stewart, of Boston, who survives him. He had no children. 

1837. — David Henry Thoreau died in Concord, Mass., 
6 May, 18G2, aged 44 years. He was son of John and Cyn- 
thia (Dunbar) Thoreau, and was born in Concord, 12 July, 
1817. His father, who was a pencil-maker, son of John and 
Jeannie (Burns) Thoreau, was born in Boston. His grand- 
father came from St. Helier, on the Island of Jersey, and was 
of French origin. A Burns left property in Sterling, Scot- 
land, to his wife, the said Jeannie Burns, and said it Avas worth 
attending to ; but the papers to obtain it, though three attempts 
were made, never reached Scotland. This was about fifty years 
ago. His grandfather had a brother Philip in the Island of 
Jersey. He was a cooper ; but business was dull ; and he 
shipped as a sailor on board a vessel in which John Adams 
went to France, in the American revolution. He came to this 
country about 1773. After the termination of the war, he 
went into business at No. 45, Long Wharf, Boston, in a very 
small way, in company with a Mr. Phillips, under the firm of 
Thoreau and Phillips. Pie accumulated a large property, and 
removed to Concord, where he died of consumption about one 
year afterwards, in consequence of a cold caught in patrolling 
the streets in Boston, in a heavy rain in the night, when a 
Catholic riot was expected, about 1801. His first wife died 
not long before he did ; and he married a Miss Kettle, of Con- 
cord, sometimes spelled Kettell, by whom he had no children. 
Mr. Thoreau's mother was daughter of Asa and Mary (Jones) 



1861-02.] OF HARVAED COLLEGE. 431 

Dunbar, and was born in Keene, N.H. Her mother belonged 
to the Jones family of Weston. Her father, Rev. Asa Dun- 
bar (H.C. 17G7), was a minister in Salem, and afterwards a 
lawyer in Keene, an eminent freemason ; died 22 June, 1787, 
aged 42 years, and was buried with masonic honors. Young 
Thoreau was fitted for college at Concord Academy by Phineas 
Allen (H.C. 1825). While in college, he kept school six 
weeks in Canton, and boarded with Orestes A. Brownson. 
They studied the German reader together very industriously, 
and talked philosophy till eleven o'clock, nights. Thoreau 
became sick, and was obliged to leave his school. This was in 
his junior year. After graduating, he taught the public school 
a few weeks ; then a private school in Concord two or three 
years. Not long afterwards, he spent six months as a private 
tutor in the family of William Emerson (H.C. 1818), on Sta- 
ten Island, N.Y. For two years at one time, and one year at 
another, he was a member of the family of Ralph Waldo 
Emerson (H.C. 1821) in Concord. With the exception of the 
six months at Staten Island, he resided constantly in Concord, 
leading chiefly an agricultural and literary life ; supporting him- 
self by his own hands, being a pencil-maker ; often employed as 
a painter, surveyor, and carpenter. Nearly every year, he made 
an excursion on foot to the woods and mountains in Maine, New 
Hampshire, New York, and other places. For two years and 
two months continuously, he lived by himself in a small house 
or hut of his own building, about a mile and a half from Con- 
cord village. He was well known to the public as the author 
of two remarkable books, "A Week on the Concord and Merri- 
mack Rivers," published in 1849 ; and " Walden, or Life in the 
Woods," published in 1854. These books have never had a 
wide circulation, but are well known to the best readers, and 
have exerted a powerful influence on an important class of ear- 
nest and contemplative persons. He led the life of a philoso- 
pher, subordinating all other pursuits and so-called duties to his 
pursuit of knowledge, and to his own estimate of duty. He 
was a man of firm mind and direct dealing ; never disconcerted, 
and not to be turned, by any inducement, from his own course. 



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He had ;i penetrating insight into men with whom he conversed, 
:iml was not to be deceived <>r used by any party, and did not 
conceal his disgust at any duplicity. As he was incapable of 
the least dishonesty or untruth, he had nothing to hide; and 
kept his haughty independence to the end. lie was never 
married. 

1841. — Charles Frederick Simmons was lost at sea, in 
February or March, 1802, at the age of 41 years. lie was the 
youngest son of Hon. William (II.C. 1804) and Lucia (Ham- 
matt) Simmons, and was born in Boston, 27 January, 1821. 
I lis father was born in Hanover, Mass., 9 July, 1782 ; was a 
lawyer in Boston, and for many years one of the judges of the 
Police Court; and died 17 June, 1843, aged 61 years. His 
mother was a native of Plymouth. He was a school-boy at 
the Latin School in Boston, and nearly ready to enter college, 
when ill health compelled an absence for several months of 
country life : his preparatory studies were finished under the 
direction of his brother, the Rev. George Frederick Simmons 
(H.C. 1832) ; and he entered Harvard College in 1837. After 
the usual college course, he studied law in the office of David A. 
Simmons ; and except as interrupted by ill health, at one time, 
in his early professional life, — being from this cause absent for 
three years from his office, — he was in general practice as a 
lawyer in Boston, devoting himself during the last three years 
chiefly to conveyancing, and to the law of real estate. At an 
early period of the war, he received a commission as adjutant 
of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, when he gave all 
his energy to the formation of that regiment. The exposures 
and hardships of military life were cheerfully borne by him ; 
but a long march with his regiment, in severely cold and 
stormy weather, proved too much for his physical strength : 
from the ill effects of this march he never recovered. After a 
long furlough, during which he hoped, in vain, quickly to regain 
his customary health, he resigned his commission, and, for the 
benefit of a sea voyage, left Boston, in the English brig 
"Gypsy," on the 25th of February, 1862, for St. Jago, Cuba. 
Violent gales swept along the Atlantic coast during the early 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 433 

part of March, and in these the brig must have foundered : 
after her departure from Boston, no tidings of the brig, her 
passengers, her crew, ever came ; no floating spar, no fragment, 
was ever seen. 

Mr. Simmons was a man of artistic tastes, of reserved 
manners, of great penetration, and much power of sarcasm. 
The influence of his residence at Concord, during the last year 
of his life, led him to embrace the soldier's life early and ear- 
nestly, and to associate the welfare of the negro race closely 
with the objects of the war. 

1842. — George Edward Eice, of Boston, died in Rox- 
bury, Mass., 10 August, 1861, aged 39 years. He was son of 
Henry and Maria (Burroughs) Rice, and was born in Boston, 
10 July, 1822. He was fitted for college partly at the Latin 
School in Boston, and partly at the school of Mr. E. L. dish- 
ing (H.C. 1827). After leaving college, he studied law with 
Charles G. Loring (H.C. 1812) and William Dehon (H.C. 
1833), of Boston, and practised his profession in his native city. 
He was a gentleman of fine literary taste ; and contributed valua- 
ble articles to the best periodicals in the country, including the 
"North -American Review." He also possessed much poetical 
talent, with keen wit. He was author of several humorous 
plays, which were performed at theatres, and received with great 
applause. He published several matters of a humorous charac- 
ter, and subsequently two small volumes of poems, under the 
titles of " Ephemera " and " Nugamenta." He was widely 
known as a writer of genuine sarcastic wit. He was possessed 
of a sensitive mind and nervous temperament, easily excited by 
any unusual event of joy or sorrow. 

He married, 28 .December, 1857, Tirzah Maria Crockett, 
daughter of George W. Crockett, Esq., of Boston. She died 
10 January, 1859, at the age of 27 years, without issue. 

1845. — George Dwight Guild died in Brookline (Long- 
wood Village), 5 May, 1862, aged 37 years. He was son of 
Moses and Juliette (Ellis) Guild, and was bom in Dedharn, 
Mass., 17 March, 1825. He was fitted for college at Wren- 
tham Academy. After graduating, he began the study of law 

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434 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1861-62. 

at the Law School at Cambridge; and completed his studies in 
the office of Charles Mayo Ellis (II. C. 1839), of Boston. On 
his admission to the bar, he established himself in the practice 
of his profession in Boston, where he remained until his death. 
He devoted himself to his profession with great assiduity, and 
soon acquired an extensive practice. He was a sate counsellor ; 
and his legal acquirements, had his life been spared, would 
probably have obtained for him judicial honors. Single-hearted 
integrity was the basis of his whole intellectual life. His gen- 
tleness and uncompromising uprightness commanded the esteem 
and insured the confidence and respect of all with whom he came 
in contact. 

He married, 13 September, 1860, Mary M. Thomas, daugh- 
ter of William Thomas, Esq., president of the Webster Bank 
in Boston. His wife and an infant child survive him. 

1849. — Henry Middleton Rutledge Fogg, of Nash- 
ville, Tenn., was killed in the battle of Somerset, Ky., 19 Janu- 
ary, 1862, aged 31 years. He was the second son of Francis 
Brinley and Mary (Rutledge) Fogg, and was born in Nashville, 
16 September, 1830. His father was a son of Rev. Daniel Fogg 
(H.C. 1764), an Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn, Conn.; 
was born in Kensington, Conn., 18 August, 1743; married 
Deborah Brinley, daughter of Francis Brinley, of Newport, R.I., 
and Alef, his wife, a daughter of Hon. Godfrey Malbone, of that 
city ; and died in Brooklyn in 1815, aged 72 years. His mother 
was daughter of Hon. Edward Rutledge, of Charleston, S.C. 
He was a fine scholar, and graduated with high honor. After 
leaving college, he visited Europe; and, on Ins return, studied 
law with his father, one of the ablest lawyers and ripest schol- 
ars in the valley of the Mississippi. It may be added that the 
latter studied law with his relative, the Hon. William Hunter, 
of Newport, R.I., who received his legal education in London. 
On being admitted to the bar, Francis Brinlev Fofrsf removed 
to Nashville, Tenn., and became the partner of the late Felix 
Grundy ; and in their office the late President Polk acquired his 
legal education. Young Fogg became a promising lawyer ; was 
talented and spirited. A little South-Carolina blood, probably, 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 435 

led him into the rebel army. He left his business to become an 
aide to Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer ; and they were both killed 
in the battle at Somerset. Fogg's brother, Francis Brinley 
Fogg, jun., was educated at the university in Nashville, Tenn. ; 
but studied his profession at the Law School in Cambridge, grad- 
uating in 1846. He returned to Nashville, where he began to 
practise with marked success. He died, after a brief illness in 
that city, in February, 1848. Fogg's parents are now left 
childless, having lost their only daughter a few years ago. 

1849. — Dr. Johx Smith Nichols died in Nevada, Cal., 
January, 1862, aged 35 years. He was the ninth child and 
third son of Ezra and Waitv Gray (Smith) Nichols, and was 
born in Middleton, Mass., 20 June, 1826. His father was born 
in October, 1789 ; was married in Seabrook, N.H. ; and died in 
September, 1848. The son was fitted for college at Andover. 
After leaving college, he studied medicine Avith Dr. Ezra Addi- 
son Searle Nichols, of Cambridge. He received his degree of 
M.D. in 1851, and established himself in the practice of his 
profession in Cambridge. He afterwards removed to Woon- 
socket, R.I. ; and finally went to California. 

1§49. — Col. Everett Peabody died in Pittsburg, Tenn., 
6 April, 1862, aged 31 years. He was killed in battle. He 
was the second son of Rev. William Bourne Oliver (H.C. 
181 6 j and Eliza Amelia (White) Peabody, and was born in 
Springfield, Mass., 13 June, 1830. His father was son of 
Hon. Oliver Peabody (H.C. 1773), of Exe'ter, N.H., where 
he was born, 9 July, 1799; was ordained at Springfield, 
October, 1820 ; and died 29 May, 1847. His mother was the 
second daughter and eighth child of Major Moses and Elizabeth 
Amelia (Atlee) White, of Rutland, Mass. ; and was born 24 
May, 1799. The subject of this notice was fitted for college 
by his father, and entered the University of Vermont, at Bur- 
lington, as freshman, in 1845, where he remained one year; 
then left, and entered as sophomore at Harvard College in 1846. 
On leaving college, he concluded to adopt engineering as a pro- 
fession ; and he was employed on the Cochituate water-works 
one or two months, under Mr. Chesborough. He then went 



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on to the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad, as a 
leveller. He rose rapidly in his profession. Went on to the 
Pacific Railroad, in Missouri, in 1851 ; went on to the Mays- 
vdlle and Lexington Railroad, Ky., in 1852; became chief of 
the Memphis and Ohio Railroad in 1853; became resident- 
engineer on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in 1855; 
chief-engineer of the Platte-County Railroad in 1859. When 
the war broke out, lie raised ;i battalion, received ;i commission 
as major, and was busily employed in repairing and defending 
the railway-communications of Northern Missouri. He com- 
manded twelve hundred men at the siege of Lexington. He 
Avas slightly wounded in the chest, and severely in the foot, 
which lamed him for life. He was confined to his bed for two 
months, and went on crutches for two more. He re-organized 
his regiment (the Twenty-fifth Missouri) in spite of great opposi- 
tion, and was ordered to join Gen. Grant's army. Upon his 
joining the force under Gen. Grant, the command of a brigade 
under Gen. Prentiss w r as assigned to him, on the exposed left 
wing of the army neai'est the enemy ; and here, in the unequal 
conflict which that wing maintained, he was killed. He was 
six feet and one inch in stature, Aery broad and poAverful ; 
hardy and rugged, hardly knoAving Avhat sickness was ; gay, and 
careless of the future ; Aery chivalrous, and of dauntless courage. 
1850. — Dr. Edaa^ard Brooks Everett died in Boston, 
5 November, 1861, aged 31 years. He Avas son of Hon. 
EdAvard (H.C. 1811) and Charlotte Gray (Brooks) Everett, 
and Avas born in the house of his grandfather, Hon. Peter 
Chardon Brooks, at Medford, Mass., 6 May, 1830. He Avent 
with his parents to Europe in 1840 (his father having been 
appointed minister to the Court of St. James) , and was at school 
successively at Paris, Florence, Paris again, and London, Avhile 
his father resided in Europe, from 1840 to 1845 : at London, he 
was at King's-College School, under Dr. Major. He returned 
home with his parents in 1845 ; and Avas for a short time at the 
Boston public Latin School, and then at the private school of 
Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham, of Boston (II. C. 1809), by whom 
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studied medicine at the Tremont Medical School in Boston, and 
received the degree of M.D. in 1853. He had given much 
attention to veterinary science, under the impression that it ought 
to be held in much higher consideration than it is. His health, 
however, soon began to fail ; and he never engaged in the prac- 
tice of his professsion. 

He married, 24 October, 1855, Helen C, daughter of Benja- 
min Adams, of Boston. He left a son of six and a daughter 
of four years of age, whose mother also survives him. 

1851. — Arthur Herbert Poor died in New- York city, 
11 January, 1862, aged 31 years. He was son of Benjamin 
and Aroline Emily (Peabody) Poor, of Boston ; and was born 
in Stow, Mass. (where his parents resided for a short time), 
6 December, 1830. He was fitted for college at the Boston 
Latin School. In his class he held a high rank of scholarship, 
and graduated with honors. On leaving college, he entered the 
counting-room of Messrs. Bead, Chadwick, and Dexter, commis- 
sion-merchants, of Boston ; and in January, 1855, was admitted 
as a partner of the firm. He exhibited great enterprise, energy, 
and skill in business ; and soon afterwards went to New York 
to take charge of the branch-house of the firm in that city. In 
the early part of the year 1861, he had occasion to visit some 
of the western states, on business of the house ; and while on 
his journey he took a severe cold, which terminated in an affec- 
tion of his lungs, of which he died after a long illness. He 
was greatly esteemed by his relatives, as well as by the house 
with which he was connected in business. 

He married, 10 January, 1855, Harriet Leonard, daughter 
of William A. F. Sproat, of Taunton, Mass., by whom he 
had two children, — one son and one daughter, — who, with 
their mother, survive him. 

1851. — George Doane Porter died in Medford, Mass., 
25 November, 1861, aged 30 years. He was son of Jonathan 
(H.C. 1814) and Catharine (Gray) Porter, and was born in 
Medford, 21 June, 1831. His father was born in Medford, 
13 November, 1791; was a lawyer in that town; and died 
11 June, 1859. His mother survived him. He was fitted for 



438 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1861-62. 

college chiefly by his father, and entered one year in advance. 
After graduating, he studied law under the instruction of Wil- 
liam Brigham, of Boston (H.C. 1829). On his admission to 
the bar, he opened an office in Boston, and another in Medford : 
luit soon afterwards confined his business solelv to Medford. 
He was much respected in his native town for his good sense, 
honesty, and faithfulness. He was for several years a diligent 
and useful member of the school-committee. 

He married, 8 August, 1860, Lucretia A. Holland, and had 
one son ; who, with his mother, survived him. 

1854. — Henry Blatchford Hubbard, of Boston, died 
in Chicago, 111., 13 February, 1862, aged 29 years. He was the 
third son of Hon. Samuel (Y.C. 1802) and Mary Ann (Coit) 
Hubbard, and was born in Boston, 8 January, 1833. His father 
was born in Boston, 2 June, 1785 ; was appointed associate- 
judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1842 ; and died 
24 December, 1847, aged 62 years. The subject of this notice 
entered the Boston Latin School at the age of twelve, and 
there pursued his preparatory studies. While in college, he 
resided with his brother, Gardiner Greene Hubbard (D.C. 
1841), in Cambridge. At the end of his junior year, on 
account of ill health and an affection of his eyes, he left college, 
and sailed for Europe, 18 June, 1853. He returned 19 Septem- 
ber, 1854, too late to graduate with his class. He received his 
degree, out of course, in 1857. He began the study of law 
with his brother, Gardiner Greene Hubbard ; but in September, 
1855, he entered the Law School in Cambridge. He left the 
Law School in 1856 ; and was clerk, engineer, and treasurer 
of the Cambridge water-works until the fall of 1859. His 
health failing, he sailed for California, 25 December following, 
in the ship " Andrew Jackson." While in California, he was 
attached to the United-States Coast Survey as magnetic and 
astronomic assistant. He returned in the spi*ing of 1861, with- 
out any improvement of his health. In September following, 
he went to visit his brother, William Henry Hubbard (B.U. 
1845), in Chicago, where he died. His remains were brought 
home, and interred at Mount Auburn 17 February, 1862. 

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1855. — Langdon Erving died in Baltimore, Md., 20 May, 
1862, aged 27 years. He was son of John and Emily Sophia 
(Elwin) Erving, and was born at Fort Henry, Md., 20 Novem- 
ber, 1834. His father is a colonel in the United-States army, 
son of John, a retired gentleman, and was born in Boston. 
His mother was daughter of Thomas Elwin, of England, a 
lawyer, who never practised his profession. His (Thomas El- 
win's) wife was the only child of Gov. John Langdon, of Ports- 
mouth, N.H. The subject of this notice, for the first ten years 
of his life, did not live a year in any one place. He was at 
North Carolina, Michigan, Georgia, South Carolina, and Phila- 
delphia : at nine or ten years of age, he was at Fort Hamilton, 
in New- York harbor. He was christened, when very young, by 
Rev. Charles Burroughs, D.D., of Portsmouth, N.H. In Sep- 
tember, 1845, he began to attend school at Perignot's, in New 
York, where he staid, with the exception of going to Cincinnati 
and Kentucky, until he entered college. He attained a dis- 
tinguished standing of scholarship in college, ranking as the fifth 
in a class numbering 81. After graduating, he entered the 
Law School at Cambridge ; and, having obtained his degree of 
LL.B. in 1857, he established himself in the practice of his 
profession in Baltimore. 

He married, 18 December, 1860, Sophie C. Pennington, 
of Baltimore ; and left one daughter, born 27 September, 
1861. 

1855. — George Foster Hodges, of Roxbury, Mass., 
died at Hall's Hill, near Washington, D.C., 30 January, 1862, 
aged 25 years. He contracted a violent cold while on a visit to 
Washington, which the damp exposure of camp life intensified, 
till it became a fever, of which he died after an illness of ten 
days. He was son of Almon Danforth and Martha (Corn- 
stock) Hodges, and was born in Providence, R.I., 12 January, 
1837. His father was born in Norton, Mass., 25 January, 
1801. He came to Boston in his youth, and served, his appren- 
ticeship in the store of Messrs. John D. Williams and Co. ; and 
afterwards began business in Providence, R.I., under the firm 
of Stimpson and Hodges, as wholesale grocers, where he con- 



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tinned more than twenty years. In l<S4f>, he removed to Bos- 
ton, an* I formed a copartnership with Mr. John L. Emmons 
(who was a fellow-apprentice with him in the store of Messrs. 
Williams) , under the style of 1 lodges and Emmons. In No- 
vember, L850, he was chosen president of the Washington 
Bank ; which office he now holds, having retired from commer- 
cial business. Young Hodjj-es's mother was a native of Provi- 
dence. She died in Roxbury, 29 August, 1841). The subject 
of this notice was fitted for college by Rev. Moses Burbank 
(Waterv. C. 1836), at his private school in Newton, Mass., and 
entered the sophomore class in 1852. He was one of the 
youngest in his class, but attained a highly respectable rank, 
and graduated with honors. After leaving college, he studied 
law, first in the office of Peleg Whitman Chandler, of Boston 
(Bowd. C. 1834), and completed his studies at the Law School 
in Cambridge, where he received his degree of LL.D. in 1860. 
Immediately after he graduated, he went to the Warren-street 
Chapel in Boston, and asked whether he could not be of some 
service in carrying out the objects of that most useful institution, 
and pressed his desire to be employed in whatever way he could 
be useful. He was immediately engaged in the evening school, 
teaching the simplest rules of arithmetic and writing to adults, 
who in their youth had not enjoyed the privileges of instruction. 
After he had begun the practice of his profession, in the first 
case in which he was employed he was successful. With the 
reward he had earned, and of which he had so much right to be 
proud, he went to the treasurer of the chapel. "This," said he, 
"is one-half of my first fee. Take it, that it may do good to 
others." When the call came for the Massachusetts militia to 
rally for the support of their flag, in Api'il, 1861, he sought his 
friend and classmate, Col. Lawrence, of the Fifth Massachusetts 
Regiment, and told him that his heart was in the struggle, and 
that he had determined to enlist with his regiment ; but, there 
being no vacancy for him as an officer, he enlisted as a private 
in the Charlestown City-Guards, but was soon promoted by his 
classmate to the office of paymaster. At the battle of Bull Run 
he manifested great bravery, standing at the colonel's side, even 



1861-62.] OF HAEVARD COLLEGE. 441 

when urged to lie down, when shot and shell were coming 
against them like an avalanche. Col. Lawrence publicly stated, 
soon after his return, that he owed his life to the chivalrous exer- 
tions of his friend. Returning to Massachusetts with his regi- 
ment, his military taste was again gratified by his appointment 
as adjutant of the Eighteenth. The universal testimony of his 
intimate friends is, that he was of a frank and generous nature, 
amiable and warm-hearted, and enjoyed the esteem and respect 
of all his classmates and friends. The noble object to which he 
devoted, and in the end gave up, his life, is a guaranty to the 
world that their confidence was not misplaced. An officer 
of his regiment, at his funeral, said of him, "He had a good 
word for everybody. He was kind and obliging to all. He 
gained the respect and regard of both officers and men." 

He was never married. 

1855. — Rev. William Ward Meriam was murdered 
3 July, 1862, on his way from Constantinople to Philippopolis. 
He was born in Princeton, Mass., 15 September, 1830; and 
was therefore 31 years old at the time of his death. After 
the death of his father, in 1834, his mother removed with 
her four children to Cambridgeport, where she resided until her 
death in 1850. The subject of this notice was fitted for college 
at the high school in Cambridgeport. In 1850, he became 
deeply impressed with the importance of a religious life ; and 
the next year he united with the Orthodox Congregational 
church in Cambridgeport. Immediately after leaving college, 
he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where he 
graduated in 1858. Having resolved to devote his life to 
missionary services, he married, 1 September, 1858, Susan 
Dimond, of Cambridgeport ; and was ordained at the same 
place, 29 November of that year. He sailed from Boston 
for his mission, with his wife and several other missionary 
laborers, 17 January, 1859 ; arrived at Smyrna 22 Febru- 
ary, and at Adrianople 22 April. After spending some 
months at the latter place, studying the Turkish language, he 
went in October, with Mr. Clark, another missionary, to the 
new station Philippopolis (Western Turkey) , which was subse- 

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quently the field of hie Labors. He had greatly endeared him- 
self to ilif people in the vicinity of hie residence; had jusi 
acquired n knowledge of the Turkish language, and was pre- 
pared to prosecute his work successfully. In .May, L862, he 
made a tour through sixty i>r seventy villages in the neighbor- 
hood of his residence. At the time of his death, he was on his 
way home from Constantinople, where he had been to attend the 
annual meeting of the missionaries of Western Turkey. His 
wife and child and one or two missionaries were with him ; when 
the party were met by a company of five mounted brigands, by 
whom Mr. Meriam and one of his companions were killed. 
.Mrs. Meriam carried the body of her husband forty-eight long 
and weary hours, in order that she might bury it in the home 
of his mission-life ; but the shock to her own system was too 
great for her to bear, and she died of typhoid-fever on the 25th 
of July, — twenty-three days after the death of her husband. 
She was a graduate of the Cambridge High School, and for 
many years a most successful teacher in the public schools of the 
place. Three of the five brigands were afterwards arrested, 
were tried, convicted, and were all executed on the 8th of 
January, 1862. 

The child of Mr. Meriam arrived at Boston, 12 May, in the 
bark " Smyrniote " from Smyrna, hi good health ; and found 
a new r home in the family of Mr. J. N, Meriam, in Cam- 
bridge. 

1858. — George Bradford Chad wick, of Boston, died 
in Northampton, Mass., 12 August, 1861. He was the third 
of four children, and only son of Dr. George (D.C. 1825) 
and Susan Brewster (Gilbert) Chadwick, and was born in 
Ipswich, Mass., 3 January, 1830. His father graduated at 
Dartmouth College with the second honors of his class. After 
leaving college, he pursued the study of medicine ; and, having 
received the degree of M.D. in 1828, he began the practice of 
his profession in Ipswich, where his four children were born. 
Shortly after the birth of his fourth child, he relinquished the 
practice of medicine, removed to Chelsea, and began business 
as a merchant, in Milk Street, Boston, with his brother-in-law, 



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1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 443 

Samuel S. Gilbert, under the firm of Gilbert and Chadwick. 
His mother was daughter of Hon. Benjamin Joseph Gilbert, of 
Hanover, N. H. (Y. C. 1786) , a lawyer by profession ; and mar- 
ried Sally Shepard, of Boston. His great-grandfather, Joseph 
Gilbert, was a native of Brookfield, Mass. The father of the 
subject of this notice took a severe cold in the autumn of 1843, 
which resulted in a rapid consumption ; and he died, 11 Novem- 
ber of that year, at the house of his father-in-law, who had 
removed from Hanover to Boston. 

Young Chadwick first entered the Adams School, in Mason 
Street, Boston. He Avas afterwards transferred to the Brimmer 
School, where a Franklin medal was awarded to him in 1850. 
He that year entered the Boston Latin School, where he re- 
mained a little more than a year ; and then entered the private 
Latin school of Epes Sargent Dixwell (H.C. 1857), in Boyls- 
ton Place, where he completed his studies for entering college, 
leaving the school in January, 1854. While in college, he 
held a respectable rank of scholarship. He had a strong par- 
tiality for architecture ; and, at commencement, an essay was 
assigned to him : the subject was, "Architecture in the United 
States." After leaving college, he studied architecture for some 
time under the instruction of Mr. George Snell, of Boston ; 
and intended to make that business his profession. 

1858. — James Jackson Lowell was born in Cambridge, 
Oct. 15, 1837. He was the second son and fourth child of 
Charles Russell and Anna Cabot (Jackson) Lowell, and the 
grandson of Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D. (H.C. 1800), and of 
Patrick T. Jackson. He was fitted for college at the private 
school of Rev. Thomas Russell Sullivan, and at the Boston 
Latin School, where he took the first rank. Early in the fresh- 
man year, he was acknowledged to be the first scholar in his 
class ; a place which he held without dispute through his college 
course. After graduation, he taught private pupils in Cam- 
bridge for a year ; and then entered the Law School, while still 
continuing his private instruction and residing with his parents 
in Cambridge. At the breaking-out of the rebellion, he became 
an interested member of a drill-club which was formed in Cam- 



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bridge, and has since furnished many excellent officers to the 
army. In July, 18(51, lie joined the Twentieth Massachusetts 
Regiment as first lieutenant in Capt. Schmitt'a company. 

On 21 October, 1861, he was wounded in the thigh al 
Ball's Bluff; passing several weeks at home in consequence. 
He rejoined his regiment as soon as he was fit, and, in the ab- 
sence of the captain, took the command of his company, which 
he retained through the Peninsula campaign, until, during the 
"seven days," he was wounded mortally in the battle of Glen- 
dale, June 30. He was left in the hands of the enemy, it being 
the opinion of the surgeons that he could not live more than a 
few hours. He lingered, however, until the fourth of July, — 
a day most fitting to be associated thus with the memory of this 
patriot soldier. His whole bearing, after receiving the fatal 
wound, was marked by a characteristic composure and undemon- 
strative fortitude. He bade his men go forward without mind- 
ing him. To a fellow-officer he said that his wound w r as similar 
to that of his cousin, William Lowell Putnam, at Ball's Bluff, 
whom he spoke of meeting shortly. The only message which 
he sent home was to the effect that he was doing his duty when 
he fell'; and, after he was left in the enemy's hands, so clearly 
and so dispassionately did he talk of the nature of the war, 
and of the reasons which had led him to devote his life to it, 
that our surgeons, who had remained to care for the wounded, 
told the rebel officers to talk with him if they wished to see how 
a true and brave Northern soldier thought and felt. 

Some weeks elapsed before certain news concerning his death 
reached his family ; but at length the return of one of his fellow- 
prisoners put it beyond doubt. Few have fallen so widely 
lamented, or have been felt to be a greater loss to the com- 
munity, as was manifested by the heartfelt tributes which were 
paid to his memory in very numerous letters to his parents, in a 
printed sermon by Rev. C. A. Bartol, D.D. (Bowd. C. 1832), 
and in many other ways. Nor can the loss of one whose character 
was so living ever cease to be freshly felt. His springing step, his 
cheery voice, his eye shining with a deep interior light, are inti- 
mately associated, to all who knew him, with the Cambridge streets 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 445 

and walks. The outward bearing marked the quality of the man. 
There was a charm in his whole air and manner that attracted 
even the chance beholder ; the more because he was himself so 
unconscious of it. A lover of nature and natural things, he 
was thoroughly and entirely natural. Simple, pure, and wise, 
abstemious in personal tastes and habits, reticent of his judg- 
ment of others, he was severe in his judgment of himself, so 
that he might almost have been called ascetic, but for the fresh 
and hearty enjoyment which he took in all social pleasures. 

He had a singular truthfulness, which sometimes put on the 
appearance of bluntness ; nor did he conceal the quick displeas- 
ure which moved him at any deception or ungenerosity : but he 
was equally ready to more than repair any fault of impulse. 
His unobtrusive kindness was continually occupied in quiet 
benefits. Deliberate in decision, he was speedy in thought : his 
mind worked carefully and surely, as well as quickly, in its pro- 
cesses ; although he weighed the practical results of his conclu- 
sions with the utmost care, and was slow to take an irrevocable 
step. 

A high and delicate honor, loyalty to the principles of truth 
and freedom, a fine sense of justice, which was instinctive, took 
in him the place of a natural aptitude for Avar, which he had not 
especially. At his second college exhibition, he had spoken on 
"Loyalty." In a military note-book for his private use, he had 
written the motto, from one old French army list, "The true 
characteristic of a perfect warrior should be fear of God, love of 
country, respect for the laws, preference of honor to pleasures, 
and to life itself. " It was the unconscious statement of the prin- 
ciples which led him into the service of his country. He went 
calmly and seriously, because he felt it to be his duty to go. 
He comprehended the nature and importance of the contest ; and, 
realizing fully the personal danger also, was willing to give his 
life to the cause. In a letter to some classmates who had pre- 
sented him with a sword, written in the spring of 1862, he said, 
almost prophetically, " When the class meets in years to come, 
... let the score who went to fight for their country be remem- 
bered with honor and praise ; and let not those who never 



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returned be forgotten, — those who died for the cause, not of 
the constitution and the laws (a superficial cause: the rebels 
have the same) , bul <>f civilization and law, and the self-restrained 
freedom which is their result." 

Such a noble spirit can never be forgotten. Honorable by 
blood and name and nature, devotedly beloved, rarely gifted in 
all intellectual and moral qualities, pre-eminent among his fel- 
lows, who rejoiced in that undisputed pre-eminence, their pride 
and affection follow him with fresh sorrow, and yet with joy 
that a heroic death was permitted to round and complete a life 
short in years, but long in the acquisition of those gifts and 
graces which are among the possessions of the soul, and can 
never die. 

1858. — Nathaniel Russell, of Plymouth, Mass., died at 
Drummondtown, Accomac county, Va., 25 March, 1 s ( '» 2 . aged 
24 years. He was son of Nathaniel (H.C. 1820) and Catha- 
rine Elizabeth (Elliott) Russell, and was born in Plymouth, 
13 June, 1837. He was fitted for college at the high-school 
in Plymouth, under John William Hunt (Mid. C. 1847), and 
afterwards under Franklin Crosby. He had a particular partiality 
for vessels ; for any kind of navigable craft. He intended to 
be a merchant, and become interested in navigation. Soon after 
leaving college, he became attached to the United-States Coast 
Survey, under Capt. Harrison, of Plymouth, stationed in Eastern 
Virginia. His death was sudden : on the 18th of March, he 
was attacked with lung-fever, and died one week afterwards. 
He was a young man of frank, cordial manners, and was en- 
deared to all his acquaintances. Retiring and quiet, almost 
self-distrustful, as he was, his unaffected simplicity and open- 
heartedness could not fail to win him friends. Kind, affec- 
tionate, devotedly fond of his relatives and friends, an upright 
man and sincere Christian, he has gone early to receive the re- 
wards of a life well spent. 

1858. — Frank Howard Shorey died in Dedham, Mass., 
24 January, 1862, aged 24 years. He was son of John and 
Cornelia (Guild) Shorey, and was born in Boston, 2 Novem- 
ber, 1837. His father was a merchant in Boston : he died 



1861-62.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 447 

about ten years since. His mother was a native of Dedham : 
but, on her marriage, she removed to Boston, where she resided 
five or six years ; after which she returned to Dedham, and has 
since resided there. He was fitted for college at the Dedham 
High School. He entered Dartmouth College, where he re- 
mained two years ; then left, and entered the junior class in 
Harvard. He attained a high rank of scholarship in his class, 
and graduated with distinction. He was a very good belles- 
lettres scholar, and possessed great love for the natural sci- 
ences. Botany was to him a favorite pursuit. After leaving 
college, he studied law, under the instruction of Thomas La- 
fayette Wakefield, of Boston (D.C. 1843) ; and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in December, 1849. He immediately began 
the practice of Ins profession in Boston, with cheering prospects 
of success. Soon afterwards he became a member of the Epis- 
copal church in Dedham, of which the Rev. Samuel Brazer 
Babcock (H.C. 1830), is rector. About a year before his 
death, the fatal signs of consumption appeared. He was patient 
in suffering, waiting calmly the result. His whole life was 
beautifully consistent, pure; and his death was serene and 
cheerful. He was never known to swerve from moral rectitude ; 
and yet, with delicate sensitiveness, he discarded self-merit, and 
died with the Saviour's name upon his lips, as his only but per- 
fect hope. He was never married. 

185D. — Major Henry Jackson How was killed in one of 
the battles fought during a retreat of the army from Fair Oaks 
to Malverton, on James river, 30 June, 1862. He was son of 
Phincas and Tryphena (Wheeler) How ; Avas born in Haver- 
hill, Mass., 22 October, 1835 ; and was therefore 26 years old 
at the time of his death. He was fitted for college at Phillips 
Academy, Andover, Mass., and entered in 1854, but left in the 
first term, in his freshman year. He re-entered in the class of 
the next year. After leaving college, he was engaged most 
of the time in the manufacture of hats, until the breaking-out of 
the rebellion, when he resolved to devote himself to the cause 
of his country. He entered into the service with his whole 
soid, and proceeded at once to raise a company, which was 



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attached to the liHli regiment. lie was a fine soldier; six feet 
in height; <>f splendid personal appearance, great physical 
power, and indomitable courage. II*- received a commission as 
major. The regiment left fin- Washington on the 28th of Au- 
gust last, and was stationed on the Upper Potomac Major How 
was engaged in much active service, and exhibited the utmosl 
intrepidity on the battle-field, until, at last, his life was sacri- 
ficed in the cause to which he has so nobly devoted himself. 

1860. — Julius Sedgwick Hood, of Lynn, Mass., died 
in Louisville, Ky., 21 December, 1861, aged. 21 years. He 
was son of George and Hermione (Breed) Hood, and was 
born in Lynn, 7 October, 1840. His father was son of 
Abner and Mary (Richardson) Hood; was born in Lynn, 
10 November, 1806. While young, he removed, with his 
parents to Nahant, where he passed his youth, with the excep- 
tion of a few years which he spent at school in Hanover, N.II. 
Having, by his own unaided exertions, accumulated a small 
capital, he went, in 1827, to St. Lonis, Mo., where, in com- 
pany with John C. Abbott, he established a boot-and-shoe 
business, in which he was interested until 1841. Returning to 
Lynn in 1835, he established himself in Boston as a commission 
boot, shoe, and leather merchant ; in which business he con- 
tinued until his death. He for some time took an active part 
in public life, being for several years a member of the Massa- 
chusetts legislature. He was also, in 1850, the first mayor of 
Lynn, and was re-elected in 1851 ; and a member of the Massa- 
chusetts constitutional convention in 1853. He died 27 June, 
1859. His mother was born in Lynn, 18 March, 1812. She 
was daughter of Aaron Breed, born in 1761, a soldier in the 
revolutionary waf, and an adjutant in the war of 1812. He 
was also a member of the state legislature for several years. 
He died in 1817. The subject of this notice was fitted for 
college at the Lynn High School, under Mr. Jacob Batchelder 
and Mr. Gordon Bartlett. In college, his attainments in schol- 
arship were distinguished, and he graduated with the second 
honors of his class. On account of his feeble health, he did 
not enter upon the study of any profession or upon any busi- 



1861-62.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 449 

ness. A few weeks before his death, he left his home in Lynn 
for Lexington, where he had a brother residing ; hoping, in a 
more congenial climate, to regain his lost strength, or, at least, 
to lengthen a life so dear to those who looked to him for counsel 
and assistance. "His death," writes one who knew him well, 
"was calm and beautiful : he felt more than willing to go and 
do the work and achieve the usefulness there which he had hoped 
to do here." He was a true and warm-hearted friend ; a man 
strong in principle, and earnest in a Christian life. 

1860. — William Matticks Rogers died of typhoid fe- 
ver, in the army, near Richmond, June, 1862. He was the 
only son of Rev. William Matticks (H.C. 1827) and Adelia 
(Strong) Rogers, and was born in Boston, 26 October, 1838. 
He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. 
He held a respectable rank of scholarship, and was greatly be- 
loved by his classmates. He was one of the class-committee. 
Immediately after graduating, he went to Europe, and began the 
study of law and of the German language in Heidelberg, where 
he remained one year ; and, when the rebellion broke out, he at 
once determined to devote himself to the cause of his country. 
He immediately returned, and enlisted as a private in Company 
A, of the Eighteenth Massachusetts Regiment. He was soon 
afterwards made a sergeant, and, subsequently, sergeant-major. 
Had his life been spared, he would probably soon have received 
a commission. But it was otherwise ordered : his life was 
sacrificed while contending for the preservation of the Union. 



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1791. — Dr. John Walton died in Pepperell, Mass., 21 
December, 18(52, aged 92 years. He was the son of John and 
Keziah (Viles) Walton, and was born in Cambridge, Mass., 
29 October, 1770. He was fitted for college in his native 
place. He held a respectable rank in his class, and graduated 
with honors. He studied medicine under the instruction of Dr. 
Oliver Prescott, of Groton, Mass. (H.C. 1783), and settled in 
Pepperell ; where he practised his profession for more than sixty- 
years, and was much respected by the people of the town of 
which he was so long a resident. On the 4th of September, 
1832, he was chosen a deacon of the Unitarian church in Pep- 
perell. He never held a political office. 

He married, in Newton, Mary Bullard, by whom he had 
seven sons and one daughter ; of whom the daughter and three 
sons survived him. His wife died in the spring of 1848. 

1801. — Rev. John Okill Stuart died in Kingston, 
C.W., 5 October, 1862, aged 86 years. He was son of- Rev. 
John Stuart, and was born in the missionary-house at Fort 
Hunter, on the banks of the Mohawk River, N.Y., 29 June, 
1776. His father was the last missionary to the Mohawk 
nation. In 1787, at the age of eleven years, he was placed 
at school in the academy in Schenectady, N.Y. (now Union 
College), where he received instruction preparatory to his 
reception into a higher seminary. In 1792, he was sent to 
the academy at Windsor, N.S., where he remained two years. 
In 1795, he was appointed teacher of a public grammar- 
school in Kingston, and continued in that office and employ- 
ment till June, 1798; and that year he entered the sophomore 
class in Harvard College ; but he did not remain with the class 
much more than a year, although he received his degree with 



1862-G3.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 451 

the others of the class who had gone through the whole course. 
In June, 1800, he was ordained as minister of the United 
Church of England and Ireland by Dr. Mountain, bishop of 
Quebec ; and, in 1801, was appointed missionary, by the Society 
for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, at York (now 
Toronto), C.W., at that time the seat of government. There 
he served his vocation and ministry from 1800 to 1812 ; estab- 
lished a congregation, and built a church; and, on the decease 
of his father (who was rector of St. George's in Kingston), by 
invitation of the congregation, and upon application to the 
bishop, he was appointed his successor; and, in 1812, removed 
from York (now Toronto) to Kingston. From 1812 to 1822, 
he served the congregation at Kingston as their parish minister ; 
and, in the latter year, he was collated by the bishop to be 
archdeacon of York, in the diocese of Quebec. In 1839, when 
the diocese of Quebec was divided, and Toronto taken from it, 
he resigned his commission, and was collated by the bishop to 
be archdeacon of Kingston, in the diocese of Toronto, and con- 
tinued in that office until 1862 ; when, on the subdivision of 
the diocese of Toronto into that of Ontario, he surrendered his 
commission of archdeacon of Kingston, and was preferred to be 
dean of Ontario. In 1830, he had an assistant-minister to St. 
George's, who continued his aid and work, he, however, con- 
tinuing as rector of St. George's ; and, at the time of his death, 
was one of the officiating clergymen in the cathedral of the 
diocese of Ontario, in the city of Kingston. Therefore, for 
more than sixty years, he resided in nearly the same place ; 
preaching to a people to whom his whole course of life, and 
all his sayings and doings, were known, and retaining and 
enjoying their respect and esteem. He was not brilliant, nor 
particularly gifted, nor very learned ; but he had great moral 
worth. In all his communications, he was perfectly sincere, 
wholly free from artifice, deception, guile. With an exterior 
somewhat grave and reserved, almost stern, he had ardent 
and warm attachments. In communing with him, one felt 
a perfect satisfaction that he was truthful in all he said. 
Without making professions of attachment, he was always 
inclined to do kind things whenever it was in his power. 



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He married, 2 October, 1803, Lucy Brooks, daughter of 
Gov. John Brooks, of Medford, with whom lie became ac- 

quainted in 17!)<S, during a residence of several months in the 
town, completing his studies for admission into college. She 
died in 1813, leaving one son, — George Okill Stuart, the only 
surviving male descendant of Gov. Brooks, — a counscllor-at- 
law of high standing, who has been mayor of Quebec, lie 
married a second wife, Ann Ellice Stuart, who died in King- 
ston, 28 November, 1830, aged 70 years. 

1802. — Henry Adams died in Somerville, Mass., 13 No- 
vember, 18G2, aged 83 years, lie was son of Rev. Zabdiel 
(II. C 17.V.)) and Elizabeth (Stearns) Adams; was the ninth 
of eleven children, ten of whom lived to adult age ; and was 
born in Lunenburg, Mass., 13 May, 1777. His father was 
son of Ebenezer Adams, of Quincy, Mass., where he was born 
5 November, 1739 ; was ordained at Lunenburg, 5 September, 
17(54; died 1 March, 1801, aged fil years. His mother was 
daughter of Rev. David (H.C. 1728) and Ruth (Hubbard) 
Stearns : she was born in Lunenburg, 20 April, 1742 ; and 
died August, 1800, aged 58 years. His father was successor 
of her father in the church of Lunenburg. The subject of 
this notice was fitted for college, partly at Groton Academy, and 
partly by Dr. John Hosmer, of Medford. He studied law with 
his brother, Zabdiel Boylston Adams (H.C. 1791), in Charles- 
town, Mass., where he afterwards practised his profession. 
Subsequently he resided for about four years in Richmond, Va. , 
where he taught a private school ; then returned, and again 
practised his profession in Ashburnliam, Mass., where he resided 
about four years. Thence he removed to Lexington, Mass., 
having relinquished his profession ; and, for the last twenty years 
of his life, he resided in Somerville, where he devoted himself to 
agricultural pursuits, to which he had a great partiality. 

He married, 1 January, 1806, Susan Forster, daughter of 
Jacob and Rebecca Forster, of Charlestown, Mass., by whom 
he had three children (all sons), of whom the only survivor is 
Edwin Forster Adams, a merchant in Boston. His wife died in 
Lexington, 12 January, 1834. He married for his second 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 453 

wife, 8 October, 1835, Sarah K. Hawkins, daughter of Col. 
Nathaniel Hawkins, of Somerville, then a part of Charlestown. 
She died without issue, in Somerville, 17 December, 1851. He 
married for his third wife, 4 November, 1852, Mrs. Arphia 
Besent, a widow, of Cambridgeport, whose former husband was 
a foreigner. She survives him. 

1802. — Andrew Ritchie died in Newport, R.I., 7 Au- 
gust, 1862, aged 80 years. He was son of Andrew and 
Isabella (Montgomery) Ritchie, and was born in Boston, 18 
July, 1782. He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy in 
Andover. He held a distinguished rank of scholarship, and 
graduated with the second honors of his class ; but, when he 
took his degree of master of arts in 1805, the valedictory 
oration was assigned to him. He studied law in the office of 
Rufus Greene Amory (H.C. 1778), and practised his profes- 
sion in Boston. Having inherited an ample competency, he did 
not aim at distinction at the bar, although his legal attainments 
were of the first order. On the 4th of July, 1808, he delivered 
the annual oration before the town authorities of Boston, in 
which he said, " We are not required, like young Hannibal, to 
approach the altar, and vow eternal hatred to a rival nation ; but 
we will repair to the neighboring heights, at once the tombs and 
everlasting monuments of our heroes, and swear, that, as they 
did, so would we rather sacrifice our lives than our country." 
On the morning of the day when he delivered this oration, the 
Hon. Fisher Ames died in Dedham. In his address, while 
alluding to Bonaparte, he said, " His conduct has declared, 
plainer than language can express, that he will endure no neu- 
trals ; and that, too, under a persuasion that we dare not 
become his enemy. If we are thus summoned to take our side 
in this momentous contest, which will in a few years determine 
the political destiny of the civilized world, let the alternative 
be decided by the intelligence, the virtue, and patriotism of the 
country." He then uttered the following apostrophe on the 
death of Mr. Ames: "But, alas! the immortal Ames, who, 
like Ithuriel, was commissioned to discover the insidious foe, and 
point out our danger, has accomplished his embassy, and, on 



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this morning of our independence, has ascended to heaven. 
Spirit of Demosthenes] couldst thou have been a silent and 
invisible auditor, lmw wouldst thou have been delighted to hear 
from his lips those strains of eloquence which once, from thine, 
enchanted the assemblies of Greece ! " 

Mr. Ritchie married, 27 March, 1*07, Marin Cornelia 
Durant, daughter of Cornelius Durant, a West-India planter. 
Her father was an officer of the revolution ; was afterwards for 
many years an eminent merchant of Boston, where he died 
5 May, 1812, aged 80 years. In consequence of this marriage, 
after the death of his father-in-law, Mr. Eitchie became, by 
right of his wife, owner of a plantation in the Island of St. 
Croix. By the Danish law, he, to retain possession of the 
estate, was required to reside there ; and for many years this was 
his place of residence, although he often visited Boston, and 
spent a great part of his time in the United States. He there- 
fore did not long practise his profession. His wife died in 
Paris, France, without issue. 

He married for his second wife, 9 December, 1823, Sophia 
Harrison Otis, daughter of Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, of Boston 
(H.C. 1783), by whom he had three children, — two sons and 
one daughter, — who, with their mother, survive him. The sons 
graduated at Harvard College respectively in 1845 and 1846 ; 
and the daughter is the wife of a physician in Paris, France. 

1805. — Moses Gill died in Shrewsbury, Mass., 21 Au- 
gust, 1862, aged 81 years. He was son of Michael and Anna 
(Gill) Gill, and was born in AVestminster, Mass., 20 Decem- 
ber, 1780; but removed to Princeton, Mass., with his parents, 
when two years of age, where he passed his youthful days. His 
parents were cousins; his mother being daughter of John Gill, 
of the firm of Edes and Gill, well known as printers in Boston. 
He was born in Charlestown, Mass. ; served a regular appren- 
ticeship with Samuel Kneeland, and married one of Kneeland's 
daughters. He died 25 August, 1785. He was nephew of 
Hon. Moses Gill, who was lieutenant-governor of Massachu- 
setts, and acting-governor from 7 June, 1799, to 20 May, 
1800. 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 455 

It being the wish of his uncle (Gov. Gill) that he should 
have a collegiate education, he left him, by his will, ample 
means for his support while in college, and during his subse- 
quent life ; but this provision was not carried into effect, for his 
uncle's will was destroyed at his decease. He was fitted for 
•college partly by Rev. Joseph Russell (Y.C. 1793), of Prince- 
ton, and partly at Leicester Academy. On leaving college, he 
taught school for some time in Dorchester and Charlestown, 
Mass. He then began the study of divinity at Suffield, Conn., 
and finished his studies with Rev. Ebenezer Gay (Y.C. 1787), 
of that place. He received his license to preach, after having 
been thoroughly examined as to his views and qualifications, at 
Boylston, Mass., 29 June, 1808, by the unanimous vote of the 
association in that vicinity. He was a teacher in Boston, pub- 
lic and private, from 1812 till 1829 ; preaching occasionally 
during the time. He then, owing to ill health, removed into 
the country, which it was thought prolonged his life. After 
leaving Boston, he taught in Waltham, Chelmsford, and Acton, 
during the winter seasons ; attending to agriculture in the sum- 
mers. He also taught in Boylston, Northbridge, and Shrews- 
bury, until within a few years of his death, when he met with a 
fall which disabled him from walking, except with crutches ; and 
had also other infirmities, which he endured patiently. He Avas 
one of the school-committee in Shrewsbury about five years ; was 
chairman and secretary most of the time. He died suddenly ; 
having been as comfortable as usual during the summer, until 
the morning of his death, when he was taken ill, and survived 
but a few hours, passing away without a struggle. He was of 
a cheerful, mild temperament, enjoying the company of his 
friends, kind and sympathizing, an affectionate husband and 
father. 

He married, 2 October, 1810 (at that time teaching in 
Roxbury) , Mary Baldwin, daughter of Capt. Henry Baldwin, 
of Shrewsbury, in which town she was born 2 July, 1787. 
The issue of this marriage was two children, — a son and a 
daughter, — both of whom, with their mother, survived him. 

1806. — Daniel Henshaw died in Boston 9 July, 1863, 



456 m:< ROLOGY OF ALUMNI [ISClM;:}. 

aged 81 veins. lie was son of Col. William and Phebe 
(Swan) Henshaw, and was born in Leicester, Mass., 9 May, 
17S2. His father was born in Boston in 1735, and removed to 
Leicester in 174S. He was an officer in the revolutionary 
army. He died February, 1820, at the age of 85 years. His 
mother was daughter of Dudley Wade and Beulah Swan, of 
Leicester, where she was horn 12 January, 1758; and iY.v^ 
5 November, 1808, aged bo years. The subject of this notice 
was fitted for college at Leicester Academy. After leaving 
college, he studied law in part with Nathaniel Paine Denny 
(II. C. 1797), of Leicester, and in part with Judge Nathaniel 
Paine (II. C. 1778), of Worcester. He practised his profession 
twenty-one years in Winchester, Mass. In 1830, he was prac- 
tising in Worcester, and afterwards for several years in Lynn, 
where he had the management of a public newspaper, — the 
" Lynn Record." On becoming an editor, he gave up his pro- 
fessional business, and continued for fourteen years in the arduous 
and responsible place of leading editor of a paper ; and, after that 
period, often contributed valuable and interesting articles, chiefly 
of a biographical or historical character, to sundry newspapers, 
which were read with interest. He had a great taste for gene- 
alogy, and a fund of wit. He read many amusing papers 
before the Historic-Genealogical Society, several of which were 
published in the Boston papers. After his connection with the 
paper in Lynn had terminated, he removed to Boston ; where he 
resided — with the exception of a year or two in Wisconsin 
with a relative — until his death. 

He married, 19 November, 1821, Deborah Starkweather, 
daughter of Deacon Charles Starkweather, of Worthington, 
Mass., where she was born 2 November, 1796. She died 
6 July, 1851, leaving two daughters and one son. 

1809. — Hon. William Elliott died in South Carolina, 
February, 1863, aged 74 years. He was son of William Elliot, 
and was born in Beaufort, S.C., 27 April, 1788. He entered 
college at the age of 18, and took a very high rank of scholar- 
ship in his class ; standing as the second, Samuel Bird ranking 
as the first, scholar in the class. On account of ill health, how- 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 457 

ever, he was obliged to return home before completing his 
academical career ; but his degree was conferred upon him by 
the government in 1810, the year after his class graduated. 
For many years he devoted himself to the management of his 
estates, and served with credit in both branches of the state 
legislature. During the nullification-crisis in South Carolina in 
1832, he held the office of senator in the state legislature, but 
resigned upon being instructed by his constituents to vote to 
nullify the tariff' law. He afterwards participated less frequent- 
ly in public affairs ; his letters against secession, signed " Agri- 
cola," and published in 1851, being among his latest expressions 
of opinion on political subjects. He contributed largely to the 
periodical press of the South. His published works consisted 
of an " Address before the St. Paul's Agricultural Society " 
(Charleston, 1850) , and " Carolina Sports by Land and Water " 
(1856). He was also the author of " Fiesco," a tragedy 
printed for the author in 1850, and of a number of occasional 
poems of merit ; few of which, however, have been published. 

1812. — Samuel William Dexter died in Dexter, Mich., 
6 February, 1863, aged 70 years. He was son of Hon. Sam- 
uel (H.C. 1781) and Catharine (Gordon) Dexter, and was born 
in Charlestown, Mass., 18 February, 1792. He first entered 
college with the class which graduated in 1811, but remained 
only a few months ; when he took up his connexions, and entered 
the freshman class the following year. A few years after he left 
college, he purchased a township of land in Michigan, which he 
named Dexter;, and in which he resided until his death. 

1812. — Benjamin Daniel Greene died in Boston, 14 Oc- 
tober, 1862, aged 68 years. He was the eldest son of Gardiner 
and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Greene, and was born in Demarara, 
South America, — where his parents were then residing, — 
29 December, 1793. His father was well known as the wealth- 
iest citizen of Boston. His mother, whose virtues and amiable 
character were long remembered by her contemporaries, and 
who was a sister of the late John Hubbard, of Boston, died 
during his early childhood. Her maternal cares were assumed 
and fulfilled by Elizabeth Copley, a sister of Lord Lyndhurst, — 

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the present Mrs. Gardiner Greene, — between whom and her 
adopted son a cordial affection subsisted through life. The 
subject of this notice was fitted for college in the Boston Latin 
School, where a Franklin medal was awarded to him in LS07. 
He held a respectable rank in his class, and graduated with 
honors. After leaving college, he became a stndent-at-law in 
Litchfield, Conn. ; and entered upon the practice of his profes- 
sion, which he soon relinquished for that of medicine. Passing 
four years abroad, he travelled extensively in Europe, and 
completed his studies in the schools of Edinburgh and Paris.. 
Attracted by scientific pursuits, he was highly appreciated as a 
botanist, and became the intimate friend and correspondent 
of Sir William Hooker, and other men of distinguished attain- 
ments. He was a liberal contributor to the Boston Society of 
Natural History ; was its first president ; and his valuable libra- 
ry, uncommonly rich in scientific works, was ever open to the 
researches of his associates. He was a member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

He married, 30 May, 1826, Margaret Morton Quincy, 
daughter of Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Boston. She survives him. 
They had no children. 

1812. — George Washington Heard died in Ipswich, 
Mass., 21 April, 1863, aged 70 years. He was son of John and 
Sarah (Staniford) Heard, and was born in Ipswich, 5 Febru- 
ary, 1793. He began to fit for college under the instruction of 
Rev. Asahel Huntington (D.C. 1786), of Topsfield, Mass. ; and 
completed his preparatory studies at Phillips Academy in Ando- 
ver. After leaving college, he studied medicine with Dr. John 
Gorham, of Boston (H.C. 1801) ; and received his degree of 
M.D. in 1815, but did not enter upon the practice of his pro- 
fession. He engaged in business as a distiller in Ipswich, which 
had been previously his father's occupation. After pursuing this 
employment several years, he abandoned it, from conscientious 
motives, and removed to Boston, where, in 1837, he entered into 
partnership with James Haughton, under the firm of James 
Haughton and Co., dealers in dry goods. This partnership 
continued until 1844, when Mr. Heard withdrew. He returned 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 459 

to Ipswich, and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he 
continued during the remainder of his life. He was much 
respected in his native town ; was noted for his courtesy, kind 
feelings, and private liberality ; and the families of volunteers 
in the war had reason to be thankful for his unostentatious dona- 
tions for their relief. In 1862 he was elected a representative 
to the state legislature from Ipswich, but did not take his seat ; 
having been obliged to resign it on account of ill health. 

He married, 6 November, 1823, Elizabeth Ann Farley, 
daughter of Robert Farley, of Ipswich. The issue of this 
marriage was four sons and one daughter. The sons and their 
mother survived him. 

1813. — Dr. David Osgood died in Boston, 23 February, 
1863, aged 69 years. He was the only son of Rev. David (H.C. 
1771) and Hannah (Breed) Osgood, and was born in Medford, 
Mass., 23 December, 1793. His father was born in Andover, 
Mass., 14 October, 1747; was ordained pastor of the fust 
church in Medford, 14 September, 1774; and was one of the 
most eminent divines of his day. He died 12 December, 1822, 
aged 75 years. His mother died 7 January, 1818, aged 70 
years. She belonged to Charles^own, Mass., and was grand- 
daughter to Richard Foster, who was high sheriff under the old 
government. The subject of this notice was fitted for college 
by Dr. John Hosmer, of Medford. He held a respectable rank 
of scholarship in college, and graduated with honors. After 
graduating, he studied medicine with Dr. John Jeffries, of Bos- 
ton (H.C. 1763) ; and, on receiving his degree of M.D. in 1816, 
began practising his profession in Boston, where he continued 
his duties until his death. As a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, he was respected in his profession for his skill, 
promptitude, and kindness. He had a warm and generous na- 
ture, which never failed in its response to calls for assistance and 
advice ; was always lenient and kind towards real suffering. 
To his poor patients he was an unfailing friend, whose pa- 
tience no length of unpaid service could exhaust ; one whose 
unobtrusive and unostentatious charity made him an always- 
welcome visitant. With a mind open to conviction, he was not 



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afraid of .questioning his curly opinions. A Bignal proof <>f this 
occurred during a visit to Europe in L839. At Paris, a friend 
introduced him to Dr. Hahnemann, the founder of the Bchool of 
homoeopathy. The German philosopher spoke with warmth 
of his system, and offered his visitor the loan of a copy of the 
"Homoeopathic Novum Organum." This hook, though not en- 
tirely satisfactory to Dr. Osgood, led him to further researches, 
and lie ended in becoming a very successful practitioner on the 
homoeopathic system. During a second journey to Europe, he 
visited his distinguished patient, Miss Fredrika Bremer, who 
was under his charge when she was in Boston, and who feels 
lasting gratitude for his successful treatment of her case. Her 
printed commendations of his -skill and friendliness are the just 
sentiments of a discriminating mind and a feeling heart. As a 
friend, he was not demonstrative and impetuous, but reserved 
and sure. As a husband, he was all devotion to the chosen of 
his life ; while she most promptly repaid every service, and most 
heartily returned every affection. 

He married in November, 1821, Mary Ann Elder, of Port- 
land, Me., who survived him. They had no children. 

1813. — Royal Turner died in Randolph, Mass., 31 De- 
cember, 1862, aged 70 years. He was the only son of Seth 
and Abigail (Wales) Turner, and was born in Randolph, 6 De- 
cember, 1792. He was fitted for college under the tuition of 
Rev. Jonathan Strong (D.C. 1786). On leaving college, he 
engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he was eminently suc- 
cessful. He was much occupied in public business, always 
to the satisfaction of his employers. In early life, he was a 
practical surveyor, and assisted in locating the first railroad built 
in this country ; namely, that leading from the stone-quarries in 
Quincy to Neponset River. In 1815, he received a lieutenant's 
commission, and rapidly passed through all the grades of pro- 
motion until he reached the colonelcy in 1823. He was honor- 
ably discharged in 1825. In 1818, and in several subsequent 
years, he was elected one of the selectmen of the town. He 
was also clerk and treasurer from 1823 to 1828. He was com- 
missioned justice of the peace in 1826, and of the quorum in 



1862-63. J OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 461 

1833 ; and continued in office until his death. lie was appointed 
bank-commissioner from Norfolk in 1830. On the incorporation 
of the Randolph Bank, in 1836, he was appointed cashier, and 
held the office until 1842, when he was elected its president, 
and continued in that position until his death. During - this long 
period, he watched over its interests with paternal solicitude, and 
left it in a state of prosperity rarely attained by similar institu- 
tions. He was a director in the Bridgewater and Middleborough 
and Fall-River railroads until their union with the Old-Colony 
in one corporation ; and afterwards he was often consulted with 
regard to important measures. In all financial matters, his 
judgment was much respected ; and, when deliberately made up, 
seldom needed a revision. Although his intercourse with soci- 
ety was necessarily restricted by a defect in his hearing, which 
increased as he advanced in life, yet he was social in his tem- 
perament, and took a deep Interest in passing events. He was 
exemplary in all the vocations and duties of life, and was a 
regular attendant upon public worship, although for many years 
unable to hear a syllable uttered during the service. Symptoms 
of organic disease of the brain began to manifest themselves 
some months before his death, and continued to increase in inten- 
sity, until they terminated in partial paralysis, and ultimately 
in apoplectic coma, and the extinction of life. His death was 
felt to be a great loss, not only to his family, but also to the 
business circle in which he moved. Such was his integrity, 
energy, and promptness in executing every trust committed to 
him, and such his accuracy in all pecuniary transactions, as to 
command the confidence of his associates and of the public. 
Although very decided in his opinions, it was observed by the 
directors of the bank, after his decease, that, during the long 
period of his presidency, no one could call to mind any unkind 
word or act towards his associates in any of their deliberations 
or transactions. 

He married, 14 September, 1818, Maria White, bom 27 
June, 1800, daughter of Major John White, of Weymouth. 
They had children; viz., 1. Maria White, born 30 October, 
1819 ; died 31 October, 1819. 2. Seth, born 29 July, 1821 ; 



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now cashier of Randolph Bank. 3. Royal White, horn 10 
March, L823. 4. Ann Maria, horn 15 November, 1325; 

who married, in 1849, Isaac Swcetscr, a merchant in Boston. 
5. Abigail Wales, horn 10 February, 1830. 

1815. — Rev. Convers Francis died in Cambridge, Mass., 
7 April, 1863, aged (>7 years. 

lie was the fourth child and second son of Convers and 
Susanna (Rand) Francis, and was horn in "West Cambridge, 
9 November, 1795. He was fitted for college at the Medford 
Academy, under the charge of John Hosmer. He held a dis- 
tinguished rank of scholarship in his class. After graduating, 
he studied theology in the Cambridge Divinity School ; was 
approbated by the Boston Association ; and preached his first 
sermon, 15 November, 1818, in Rev. Dr. Osgood's pulpit in 
Medford. He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church 
in Watertown, Mass., 23 June, 1819, where he remained 
twenty-three years. In 1842, he was appointed " Parkman 
Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral Care " in Har- 
vard College, which appointment he accepted ; and 21 August, 
1842, delivered his valedictory sermon in Watertown. He im- 
mediately entered upon the duties of his professorship, which he 
continued until the end of his life. He was earnest and inde- 
fatigable in his researches after sacred truth. From a principle 
of self-respect, he was prompted to regard as true the conclu- 
sions which his mind had established ; yet he was far from being 
unreasonably tenacious of his opinions. His mind was enriched 
with the best thoughts of authors. He read with avidity, but 
with attention ; noting with care peculiarities of opinions, and 
sentiments distinguished for beauty and power. He was, in an 
eminent sense, ambitious to know the truth through whatever 
medium, be that medium only authoritative. He held an im- 
portant and responsible office. He was not only a Christian 
learner : he was also a Christian teacher. He knew full well 
the impression that instruction makes upon open and sensible 
minds ; and it was commendable in him, that, in his anxiety to 
teach nothing but the truth, he should seek the guidance of 
other minds, hallowed by equally holy motives with his own, to 
share with him the responsibilities of his sacred vocation. 



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He possessed a heart alive to social affections. His friendly 
interest, where it found a fitting and accordant place, was sin- 
cere and ardent ; and he did not suffer it to be limited to any 
point beyond which it could by any means be influential for 
good. Although no elaborate work proceeding from his pen 
has been given to the public, he manifested his interest in sci- 
ence and literature by publishing several valuable papers in our 
best accredited periodicals. Among his publications were 
"Errors of Education," a discourse at the anniversary of 
Derby Academy, in Hingham, 21 May, 1828 ; Address on 
the 4th of July, 1828, at Watertown ; An Historical Sketch of 
Watertown, from the first settlement of the town to the close 
of the second century, in 1830 ; A Discourse, at Plymouth, 
22 December, 1832 ; A Dudleian Lecture, at Cambridge, 8 
May, 1833 ; The Life of Rev. John Eliot, the Apostle to the 
Indians, in the fifth volume of Sparks's American Biography, 
1836 ; The Life of Sebastian Rale, Missionary to the Indians, in 
the seventh volume (new series) of Sparks's American Biogra- 
phy, 1845 ; Memoir of Rev. John Allyn, D.D., of Duxbury, 
1836 ; Memoir of Dr. Gamaliel Bradford, 1846 ; Memoir of 
Judge Davis, 1849 (the last three were published in th^ Collec- 
tions of the Massachusetts Historical Society) ; many articles 
in the " Christian Disciple," the M Christian Examiner," the 
" American Monthly Review," the " Unitarian Advocate," the 
" Scriptural Interpreter," the " Juvenile Miscellany ; " several 
translations from Herder, at different times ; Obituary Notice of 
Miss Eliza Townsend, 1854 ; and a large number of occasional 
discourses. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society. In 1837, the honorary degree of doctor of divinity 
was conferred upon him by Harvard College. 

He married, 15 May, 1822, Abby Bradford, daughter of 
Rev. John Allyn, D.D., of Duxbury, by whom he had two 
children, — one daughter and one son. The son graduated at 
Harvard College in 1854. His wife was born in Duxbury, 
15 January, 1796 : she died in Cambridge, 17 December, i860, 
aged 64 years. The two children survive their parents. 

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Mass., 28 May, 1803, aged G4 years. He was son of Dr. 
Tilly (B.U. 1777) and Eunice (Reed) Bice, and was horn in 
Brookfield, 11 June, 1798. He was fitted for college at Lei- 
cester Academy. Immediately after graduating, he entered the 
counting-room of Messrs. Bordman and Pope, in Boston, for 
the purpose of preparing himself for business as a merchant. 
"While in their employ, he went to the East Indies in the ship 
" Brilliant," belonging to them. On the passage, the ship sprang 
a leak ; and he labored so long and so severely at the pumps, 
that it seriously affected his health, which he never afterwards 
fully recovered. At the expiration* of his apprenticeship, he 
returned to Brookfield, but did not enter into mercantile busi- 
ness, lie was afterwards connected with an iron-foundry and 
glassworks in that town, but relinquished the business some 
time before his death. He was never married. 

1817. — Rev. Thomas Russell Sullivan died in Boston, 
23 December, 1862, aged 63 years. He was son of John 
Langdon and Elizabeth (Russell) Sullivan, and was born in 
Brookline, Mass., 13 February, 1799. He was fitted for col- 
lege principally at Dummer Academy in Newbury. He held a 
respectable rank of scholarship in his class. After leaving 
college, he studied theology in the Divinity School at Cam- 
bridge. He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in 
Keene, N.H., 28 December, 1825, where he faithfully and 
zealously performed his duties until May, 1835, when he re- 
signed his charge. He soon afterwards removed to Boston, 
where he opened a private school, which he continued until his 
death. His beautiful Christian character is thus eloquently 
delineated by Rev. William One White (H.C. 1840), now 
pastor of the church in Keene, over which Mr. Sullivan was 
settled : " He has gone, — the man who knew how, in the apos- 
tolic sense, to magnify his office ; the serious and reverend 
ambassador of God ; the simple-hearted and guileless Christian ; 
the friend whose heart was pierced with the sorrows of his 
people ; the writer skilled in controversy, yet rejoicing more 
when he could utter affectionate and sober words of practical 
counsel. In a r furnace of affliction ' he has indeed been tried 



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and proved ; and at last, from sharp and mysterious visitations 
of chastisement, he has been permitted to rest from all earthly 
toil, to lay down his heavy cross, and to be led by the hand of 
the good Shepherd 'in green pastures by the still waters.' The 
scholarly mind of this true-hearted man enabled him to achieve 
enduring success as a wise and faithful teacher for many years 
after his retirement from the scenes of his ministry. From 
time to time, however, he delighted in the privilege of resum- 
ing, in various pulpits, his early and cherished duties. He was 
one whom no change of occupation could secularize ; one who 
might have always said, in perfect sincerity, 'I will dwell in the 
house of the Lord for ever.' Now that, safe from every rough 
blast, the tears wiped from his eyes, his faith and patience 
accepted, he has r sweetly fallen asleep in Jesus,' it is precious 
to remember that here, where he so patiently served the Church 
of Christ for nine and a half years, in what was then an out- 
post of our Zion, not a shadow rests upon his memory. f Good 
and faithful servant,' we bid thee a reluctant farewell ; while 
we rejoice that all who ever knew thee, if they value purity, 
honor, truth, will find Avords of respect and affection springing 
to their lips, whenever they hear the name of Thomas Russell 
Sullivan." 

Mr. Sullivan married, 19 January, 1826, Charlotte C. 
Blake, of Worcester, by whom he had six sons and two daugh- 
ters, all of whom but one son survived him. His wife died 2 
July, 1863, aged 59 years. 

1818. — Rev. Peter Sidney Eaton died in Chelsea, Mass., 
13 March, 1863, aged 64 years. He was son of Rev. Peter 
(H.C. 1787) and Sarah (Stone) Eaton, and was born in Box- 
ford, Mass., 7 October, 1798. His father was born in Haver- 
hill, Mass., 15 March, 1765 ; ordained at Ltoxford, 7 October, 
1789 ; died in Andover, 14 April, 1848, aged 83 years. His 
mother was daughter of Rev. Eliab Stone (H.C. 1758), of 
Reading. Young Eaton pursued his preparatory studies under 
the instruction of his father. On leaving college, he was em- 
ployed some time as a teacher in Phillips Academy, Andover. 
He subsequently studied divinity at the theological seminary 

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iii that town, and graduated there in 1822. He was ordained 
at Amesbury, 20 September, L826, where he continued his 
pastorship about eleven years, where his labors woe bo arduous 
as to seriously affect his health ; and by the advice of his 
friends he resigned his charge, and wholly relinquished the 
duties of the ministry. He spent several years afterwards as a 
teacher, principally in Andover. From Andover, he removed 
to Chelsea, where he resided the remainder of his life. His 
health was somewhat impaired; but he endeavored to exert an 
influence, by all the means he might possess, favorable to the 
interests of religion and good morals. 

He married, 4 December, 1828, Elizabeth Ann Leman, 
of Charlestown, Mass., by whom he had three children : Sidney 
Payson, born in Amesbury, 16 September, 1829 ; Henry Mar- 
tyn, born in Amesbury, 28 June, 1835 ; Elizabeth Anne, 
born in Worcester, 16 May, 1841. His wife and all his chil- 
dren survived him. 

1818. — Charles Octavius Emerson died in York, Me., 
22 June, 1863, aged 64 years. He was son of Edward E. 
and Abigail (Lyman) Emerson, and was born in York, 27 
March, 1799. He was fitted for college at Phillips Exeter 
Academy. After graduating, he began the study of law in the 
office of Jeremiah Bradbury in York, where he remained one 
year. In October, 1819, he went into the office of Luther 
Lawrence (H.C. 1801) in Groton, Mass., where he continued 
his studies until October, 1821, when he was admitted to the 
bar in Concord, Mass. He then returned to his native town, 
where he practised his profession until his death. From 1823 
to 1830, he was frequently elected to fill the office of clerk and 
treasurer; was representative in the legislature in 1827, 1828, 
and 1829. His life was happy and useful. He was an honora- 
ble, religious, and unambitious gentleman. 

He married, 24 June, 1829, Harriet Jane Phillips, daugh- 
ter of Deacon John Phillips, of Portland, Me. Their children 
were, — 1. Charles Edward, born 5 April, 1830; died 25 
March, 1832. 2. Francis Philip, born 2 September, 1831. 
3. Abbie Clara, born 17 March, 1833. 4. Edward Octa- 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 467 

vius, born 6 June, 1834. 5. Andrew Samuel, born 25 
February, 1837. 6. Harriet Eliza, born 11 March, and 
died 23 September, 1840. 

1818. — John Flavel Jenkins died in White Plains, 
N.Y. , 12 September, 1862, aged 66 years. He was son of 
John and Abigail (Hall) Jenkins, and was born in Gloucester, 
Mass., 6 February, 1796. His father, who was a celebrated 
writing-master, and was author of "The Art of Writing," &c, 
was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1755, and died in Wilming- 
ton, Md., in 1823. His mother was daughter of Dan Hall, of 
Peekskill, N.Y., who was son of Caleb Hall, of Attleborough, 
Mass. ; and was born in Peekskill, in 1765. The subject of this 
notice, when about six weeks old, went with his parents to 
New- York city ; whence they soon left for Peekskill, where they 
resided until he was seven years old. He then went to the resi- 
dence of his grandparents in Boston, which he made his home, 
except while pursuing his studies in the country. As he 
obtained his education by his own unaided exertions until he 
entered college, he labored on a farm at first, and afterwai'ds 
taught, to defray his expenses. He was obliged to change his 
place of study several times, according to the state of his funds ; 
and taught school for three winters while in college. He held 
an eminent rank of scholarship in college ; and in the classics, 
in general literature, in natural sciences, and in mathematics, 
he manifested equal ability to excel ; so that, at commencement, 
the salutatory oration was assigned to him. After graduating, 
he taught the Roxbury Grammar School one year. In 1819, 
he received the appointment of tutor of mathematics in Tran- 
sylvania University, Lexington, Ky. In 1820, he was made 
professor of mathematics in place of Professor Bishop, after- 
wards president of Athen's College, O. In 1823, the death 
of his father required his presence in the East, and he resigned 
his professorship. In 1824, he took charge of Middletown 
Academy, Monmouth county, N.J., where he remained nearly 
eleven years, except one interval, when he taught a select 
school in Freehold, the adjoining town. He was there until 
invited to the city of New York, and appointed principal of the 



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Mechanics' - Society School; where he remained until 1839, 
when, in consequence of ill health, he resigned, and removed to 

the country. In January, 1840, his health being in some 
degree restored, he assumed the charge of North-Salcm Academy, 
Westchester county, N.Y., Avhere he remained until 1853; 
when he removed to White Plains, where he passed the remain- 
der of his life, engaged in business as civil engineer and sur- 
veyor. He married in Lexington, Ky., 14 March, 1-S22, Mary 
Ann Thayer Pike, daughter of Job H. Pike, of Providence, 
R.I., who derived, his descent from Sir George Pike, Bart., of 
the Isle of Wight. The issue of this marriage was twelve 
children: viz., 1. John Pike, born at Middletown, N.J., 
12 April, 1827 ; a lawyer at White Plains. 2. Mary Abi- 
gail, born at Freehold, N.J., 28 April, 1827; married A. W. 
Lobdcll, of North Salem, in 1860. 3. James Mason, born in 
Middletown, N.J., in 1831 ; died in infancy. 4. Emily Maria, 
born in Middletown, 4 February, 1832. 5. Oliver Richardson, 
born in Middletown, 20 November, 1833. 6. James Henry, born 
in New- York city, 15 December, 1835. 7. Caroline Hall, 
born in New York, 12 February, 1838 ; died at the age of six 
months. 8. Caroline Hall, born in North Salem, 27 March, 
1840. 9. Horatio Gates, born in North Salem, 12 February, 
1842. 10. Everett Lent, born in North Salem, 18 July, 1843 ; 
died in infancy. 11. Henry Clay, born in North Salem, 28 
November, 1844. 12. George Mead, born in North Salem, 25 
June, 1847. His wife survived him. 

In a letter to one of his classmates, he says, "As I began to 
teach before I entered college, and taught every winter- and two 
summer- vacations while there, and have continued teaching in 
college or academy ever since, I may take rank among the oldest 
teachers in the country. There are comparatively few who have 
taught for thirty-six years continuously. During that period, I 
have helped to form, or rather to develop, the minds of many 
who were afterwards distinguished and useful. Several of my 
early scholars have been members of Congress. I therefore trust 
I have done some good in my day ; and, though I have acquired 
no great amount of wealth or fame, I have ascertained that a 
good degree of happiness may exist without either." 



1S62-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 469 

At the time of his death, three of his sons were in the army : 
one a captain, and another a sergeant, in the 25th Connecticut 
Volunteers, under Banks ; and the third, fife-major in the 17th 
Connecticut Volunteers, under Sigel. The eldest son had been 
connected with the army for the previous eighteen months, and 
was about to resume the practice of the law at White Plains. 

1823. — Charles Carroll died in Baltimore, Md., Decem- 
ber, 1862, aged 61 years. He was son of Charles and Har- 
riett (Chew) Carroll, and was born in Baltimore, Md., 25 July, 
1801. His father was born in Annapolis, Md., and was edu- 
cated in Liege, Europe. His grandfather, Charles Carroll, of 
Carrollton, was born in Annapolis, 20 September, 1737 ; died 
14 November, 1832, aged 95 years; and was the last survivor 
of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Each of the 
three was named Charles, and each was an only son. The 
mother of the subject of this notice was a daughter of the chief- 
justice of the state of Pennsylvania. After going through his 
preliminary studies at home, he was sent to Mount-St. -Mary's 
College, near Emmettsburg, — a Roman-Catholic institution in 
Maryland. He remained there for a year or two ; when his 
grandfather, who superintended his studies, determined to give 
him the advantages of a European education. In 1817, he 
was sent to Paris ; where, in company with his cousin, Charles 
Carroll Harper, he entered the college of St. Stanislaus, and 
remained there three years. After a short tour through Italy 
and Switzerland, of which he has left a very interesting diary, 
he returned home, and immediately proceeded to Harvard Col- 
lege ; where, in 1821, he entered the sophomore class. [It 
may not be amiss to mention here, that a large portion of his 
class became engaged in some disturbances at college only a few 
weeks before commencement, and were summarily dismissed : 
among them was Mr. Carroll ; and it was not till 1855 that his 
degree was forwarded to him by the faculty of the college.] 

Having thus completed his course at college, he entered the 
law-office of his uncle, Robert Goodloe Harper (N.J.C. 1785), 
where he remained two years; and, in 1825, he married Mary 
Digges Lee, a grand-daughter of Gov. Thomas Simon Lee, 



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of Maryland. In November, 1*.'>2, his grandfather, having 
died, left him his trad of land in Maryland, called Donghoregan 
Manor, consisting of abotil twelve thousand acres, together with 
the care "I some two hundred slaves. The estate had become 
much impoverished ; hut Mr. Carroll, by devoting his life to the 
improvement of his property, for his own pleasure and the henefit 
of his family, succeeded in gathering around him one of the 
largest and most respectable tenantries in the state, and, In- 
judicious management, increased many fold the productive qual- 
ities of the manor-lands. 

He always took a very lively interest in the public questions 
of the day ; but the sphere of duties which he had marked out 
for himself did not incline him to engage in political life. A 
few years since, he built up and enlarged .the old Catholic chapel 
at the manor, ornamenting it with a marble altar made by the 
American artist Bartholomew in Rome, and erecting a hand- 
some monument to the memory of his grandfather, whose remains 
lie there. For some years previous to his death, he had been 
afflicted with a very severe catarrh, or, as it is called by some, 
"hay fever." This trouble visited him every autumn, causing 
great suffering, when finally a disease of the heart became devel- 
oped, which terminated in dropsy, of which he died. He left a 
family of six children living, and three grandchildren, repre- 
sentatives of a son who died a few months previous. The 
tr home-quarters " of Donghoregan Manor he devised to his 
eldest son of Charles Carroll ; and all the residue of his property 
to be divided equally among his children, share and share alike. 
He survived his wife only three years ; she having died at the 
manor in December, 1859. 

Mr. Carroll was greatly endeared to his friends by a remark- 
ably kind and genial nature, which derived a peculiar attraction 
from the ease and refinement of his manners, and found ample 
illustration in the liberality with which he ministered the tradi- 
tional and elegant hospitality of Donghoregan Manor ; a virtue 
which he has transmitted with the inheritance to a most worthy 
successor in his eldest son, the present proprietor of the old 
homestead. He was, in its more exalted sense, a gentleman, — 



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cordial, frank, and honorable in every relation of duty, — a 
beloved husband and father, a most humane and considerate 
master of his servants, and a generous and trusty friend. Pos- 
sessing, by an hereditary necessity, a large number of slaves at- 
tached to the manor, he was forced to give much attention to 
the questions involved in this relation ; and no man in Maryland 
ever brought to it a more liberal and intelligent study : the re- 
sult was the conclusion which he has expressed in his will, and 
in conformity with which his whole conduct through life was 
directed, — a conviction, namely, that this class of dependants 
was too helpless for freedom without the preliminary nurture 
and education that alone can make it valuable to its possessor, 
and that it is one of the highest and most necessary duties of 
the proprietor to bestow that boon upon the slave before he 
commits him to the hazards of self-defence. In accordance 
with this view, Mr. Carroll has enjoined it upon his children 
to give their attention to this preparation, with the further in- 
timation of Ins desire that the slaves committed to them shall 
not pass into bondage to another generation. 

1824. — Rev. William Hazzard Wigg Barnwell died 
in Germantown, Penn., March, 1863, aged 56 years. His 
name was originally William Barnwell, but was altered in 1856. 
He was son of Col. Robert Gibbs and Elizabeth (Wigg) Barn- 
well, and was born in Beaufort, S.C., 27 July, 1806. He 
was brother of Hon. Robert AVoodward Barnwell (H.C. 1821), 
who has been senator in Congress from South Carolina. After 
leaving college, he studied law in Litchfield, Conn., and South 
Carolina. He was admitted to the bar at Coosawhatchie in 
1827. Some time in the month of September, 1831, he expe- 
rienced a change of heart, relinquished the bar, united himself 
with the Episcopal church, and began the study of divinity. He 
was ordained dcacoii in the Episcopal church in Beaufort, S.C., 
14 April, 1833 ; and, in 1834, was ordained by Bishop Bowen, 
rector of the Pendleton Church in South Carolina, where he 
remained six months. He was then called to Charleston, and 
was instituted rector of St. Peter's Church, which was built for 
him, and where he continued some twenty years. Then he left, 



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and came north to Philadelphia, where he resided a few years. 
In 1<S57, he became insane, and was removed to Germantown, 

where lie died. 

He married, 26 November, 1820, his cousin, Catharine 
Osborn Barnwell, daughter of Edward Barnwell, of Beaufort, 
S.C., where she was born 27 April, 1809. 

1824. — Rev. Robert Brent Drane (name originally 
Lillbourne Brent Drane) died of yellow-fever in Wilming- 
ton, N.C., 16 Oetober, 1862, aged 65 years. He was born 
in that part of Maryland which is now in the District of 
Columbia, 9 January, 1797. He was fitted for college at 
Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. For a few years after 
he graduated, he kept a classical school in Salem, Mass. He 
was settled as an Episcopal clergyman in Hagerstown, Md., 
where he remained several years. In 1836, he became rec- 
tor of St. James Church in Wilmington, N.C. In 1843, 
much to the regret of his parishioners, he took charge of a 
small college near Louisville, Ky. ; but after a few r years, at 
the urgent solicitation of his old parishioners, he returned to 
Wilmington, where he remained until his death. He was much 
beloved by his people, and hardly any man could be more self- 
sacrificing and hard-working than he was. In 1843, he published 
a brief history of the parish over which he was settled, and 
which was one of the oldest in the state. In 1844, the honor- 
ary degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by 
South-Carolina College. 

When the troubles incident to the last presidential election 
threatened to destroy the Union, he took firm ground to sustain 
it ; but when these efforts proved unavailing, and the capture of , 
Fort Sumter compelled all to decide for the South or the North, 
he came out fully and strongly for the former ; and, for the last 
year, hardly a man in the town advocated the doctrine of seces- 
sion with more force and energy. The most prominent members 
of his church had long before been ultra secessionists, which 
may have influenced him in his course. But this great and 
leading congregation is now nearly broken up : of the young 
men, a large part have fallen victims to the war; and subse- 



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quently the old men and females, with their pastor, fell before 
the pestilence, and have gone to that bourn from which no 
traveller returns. 

He married, May, 1828, Augusta Endicott, daughter of 
Captain Moses and Anna (Towne) Endicott, of Danvers, 
Mass., where she was born 25 July, 1803; by whom he had 
two sons, — Robert and Henry, — the former of whom died about 
three years since. His wife died in Wilmington, 7 July, 1847. 
He married afterwards a lady of North Carolina. 

1829. — Rev. Reubex Bates died in Stowe, Mass., 
1 December, 1862, aged 54 years. He w r as son of Caleb and 
Mary (Douglas) Bates, and was born in Concord, Mass., 
20 May, 1808. He was fitted for college, partly at the West- 
ford and partly at the Groton Academy. Immediately after 
leaving college, he entered the Divinity School in Cambridge, 
from which he graduated 18 July, 1832. He was faithful as a 
student, as he was always faithful in every thing ; but Ins success 
and usefulness in active life surpassed any expectations his class 
had formed of him. As he proceeded in his studies in divinity, 
it became manifest how the heart was quickening the intellect. 
His first sermon in the theological school was a marked suc- 
cess ; not, indeed, on account of any very new or brilliant 
thoughts ; but it was so full of devotion and piety, that it moved 
all hearts. In him was fulfilled the saying of Scripture, — 
"His eye was single, and his whole body full of light." For a 
short time after he left Cambridge, he supplied the pulpit in 
Saxonville, Mass. He was ordained at New Ipswich, N.H., 
1 June, 1834 ; where he remained until 31 March, 1835, when 
he was dismissed at his own request. He was installed at 
Ashby, 13 May, 1835. In February, 1844, he went to Havana, 
havino; suffered from an attack of bronchitis. He returned in 
June, his health having improved. Two months afterwards, 
his health again failed ; and he resigned his pastorate, 31 Au- 
gust, 1845. During the winters of 1845 and 1846, he was 
representative from Ashby to the state legislature. His health 
having improved, he was installed in Stowe, 18 June, 1846. 
In the summer of 1859, his health again compelled him to give 

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474 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1862-63. 

up his parish. Tie continued, however, to reside among his 
people, taking an active interest in every good work; having 
charge, as school-committee, of the public schools, and super- 
intending the sunday-schools until within about three months 
of his decease. Both in Ashby and in Stowe, his Labors were 
rewarded with much fruit of spiritual and moral good. Very 
modest and unassuming, he was independent and fearless in all 
his work. He did nothing to be seen of men ; but he labored 
with all earnestness, industry, and self-devotion, and with care- 
ful thought and sound judgment, to see how he could do the 
most good. His people felt the power of a steady and strong 
influence in favor of rational, practical Christianity ; wherein, 
by work and examples, he was faithful to the end. 

He married, 11 February, 1835, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter 
of Jeremiah Prichard, of New Ipswich, by whom he had two 
children, — George Prichard, born 7 August, 1836, who is now 
a clerk in a mercantile house in Boston ; Charles Francis, born 
31 October, 1840, and died 30 April, 1842. His wife died in 
Ashby, 10 April, 1842, aged 33 years. lie married, for his 
second wife, 25 November, 1842, Helen T., widow of Clinton 
Atwater, of Michigan, and daughter of Daniel Tuttle, of Bos- 
ton ; who survives him, and resides in Stowe. 

1829. — Frederick William Crocker died in Barnstable, 
Mass., 11 June, 1863, aged 54 years. He was son of David 
and Rachel (Bacon) Crocker, and was born in Barnstable, 
16 April, 1809. He was fitted for college, in part, at the 
Sandwich Academy, under the instruction of Rev. Warren 
Goddard (H.C. 1818), and in part at Phillips Academy, 
Andover. After graduating, he was for seven years in business 
in Barnstable. In February, 1837, he removed to Boston, and 
went into the navigation and commission business in company 
with James Huckins and Zenas D. Bassett. This connection 
continued two years, when it was dissolved ; and he was in busi- 
ness alone until 1842, when he formed a partnership with Dwight 
Ruggles as booksellers. This continued but one year ; and, in 
1843, he returned to Barnstable to reside. Inheriting a good 
estate, he thenceforth took a deep and earnest interest in the 



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improvement of his native town, and identified himself with 
its social and literary progress. At the third anniversary of 
the Cape-Cod Association, held in Barnstable, 2 August, 1854, 
he delivered a humorous and appropriate poem, subsequently 
printed in the "Yarmouth Register." He was, Ave believe, 
a frequent contributor of political and literary articles to the 
county journals. His " Song for Harvest," written for an agri- 
cultural meeting in 1858 (set to the tune of "Old Hundred"), 
has much of poetic beauty and merit. The annual meetings of 
his class have been much indebted to him for very racy and 
witty contributions, as well as for the remarkably kindly and 
genial spirit which he invariably brought with him. Few of 
the class possessed more striking characteristics ; and very few 
classes or communities of men can show a more honest and 
truthful man than Frederick William Crocker. A hearty hater 
of cant and shams of every description, he knew how to appre- 
ciate every sterling and generous characteristic in man ; and, to 
those in whom he could confide, he proved himself a warm and 
true friend. In 1855, he was appointed, by the Supreme Court 
of Massachusetts, clerk of the courts for the county of Barn- 
stable. After the amendment of the constitution of the state, 
requiring election by the people to the county offices, he was 
elected to the same office with but a single dissenting vote, — a 
rare instance of almost unanimity. 

He married, 6 April, 1851, Louisa G. Sawyer, of Bolton, 
Mass., by whom he had four children, who, with their mother, 
survived him. 

In this class, the following members had died prior to 1851 : 
viz., Nathaniel F. Derby, of Salem, who died 13 July, 1830; 
Henry B. McLellan, of Boston, who died 4 September, 
1833 ; Andrew Ritchie, of Boston, who died at Palermo, 
Sicily, 10 July, 1837 ; Albert Locke, of Lowell, who died 
26 September, 1840; William Emerson Foster, of Boston, 
who died 23 January, 1843 ; John Rogers Thurston, who 
died 23 November, 1843 ; John Parker Billiard, of Clinton, 
La., who died 29 January, 1845; Nicholas Devereux, of 
Salem, who died 2 March, 1848 ; Solomon Martin Jenkins, 



476 NECROLOGY OF ALUM XI [1862-63. 

of Easton, Mil.. who died L5 May, L848 ; John Hubbard, of 
South Berwick, Me., who died ,"> October, L848. 

1829. — Dr. William Young died in Hingham, Mass., 
1 July, l^<i.'>. aged 54 years. lie was son of Alexander and 

Mary (Luring - ) Young, and was born in Boston, 12 January, 
1809. He was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School, 
where a Franklin medal was awarded to him in 1825 for his 
good scholarship. While in college, he did not associate 
much with his classmates. After graduating, he studied 
medicine with Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck (I).('. 1*03) ; and 
received his degree of M.D. in 1834, when he opened an office 
in Essex Street, Boston. After a few years, he relinquished 
the practice of his profession, and removed to Scituate, and 
subsequently to Hingham, where he remained until his death. 

1833. — Col. Fletcher Webster was killed at the second 
battle of Bull Run, Va., 29 August, 1862, aged 49 years. 
He was son of Hon. Daniel (D. C. 1801) and Grace 
(Fletcher) Webster, and was born in Portsmouth, N.H., 
23 July, 1813. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin 
School. He held a respectable rank of scholarship ; and such 
was his popularity with his associates, that he was chosen class- 
orator at the conclusion of their collegiate studies. After 
leaving college, he studied law with his father ; was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar, and practised his profession in Boston. He 
was private-secretary to his father during a portion of the period 
when the latter held the office of secretary of state under John 
Tyler's administration. In 1843, he became secretary of lega- 
tion under Hon. Caleb Gushing, who was then sent out as 
minister to China. In 1847, he was representative to the state 
legislature. In 1850, he was appointed surveyor of the port of 
Boston ; an office which he held until the spring of 1801, when 
he was removed. Immediately afterwards, on the breaking-out 
of the war, he proceeded to raise a regiment ; which was one of 
the earliest for the three-years' service. In July of that year, 
he proceeded to the seat of war ; and from that time he was 
assiduously devoted to the practical duties of the field, sealing 
and crowning his career bv his death in battle. A few 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 477 

weeks previously, he was granted a furlough to return home, 
and attend the funeral of his youngest daughter, aged thirteen 
years. He was also ill himself, and needed rest. He was 
urged to address mass-meetings to aid enlistments in Massachu- 
setts ; but his physician forbade the exertion. During the year, 
he had belonged to the corps of Gen. Banks, whom he highly 
respected and esteemed ; but was subsequently transferred to 
the corps of Gen. McDowell. He died as the great defender 
of the Constitution would have been willing to see a son die, — 
fighting for the defence of the Union. 

He married Caroline Story White, daughter of Stephen 
White, of Salem. The issue of this marriage was four chil- 
dren, — two sons and two daughters, — of whom both of the 
sons and one daughter, with their mother, survive. 

1836. — Grenville Tudor Phillips, of Boston, died at 
the house of his brother, George William Phillips, in Saugus, 
Mass., 25 May, 1863, aged 46 years. He was the youngest 
son of Hon. John (H.C. 1788) and Sally (Walley) Phillips, 
and was born in Boston, 14 August, 1816. His father, who 
Avas son of William and Margaret (Wendell) Phillips, was born 
in Boston, 26 November, 1770; was an eminent lawyer; was 
president of the senate of Massachusetts ; and was elected, in 
May, 1822, the first mayor of Boston. He died 29 May, 1823, 
just at the close of the year of his mayoralty. His mother was 
daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hurd) Walley ; was born 
25 March, 1772 ; and died 4 November, 1845. He was fitted 
for college at the Boston Latin School. After leaving college, 
he studied law in the office of Hon. Peleg Sprague (H.C. 
1812) and William Gray (H.C. 1829). He was admitted to 
the bar in 1839, and began the practice of Iris profession in 
Boston. Soon after the death of his mother, he went to Europe, 
Avhere he remained a few years, and then returned home ; but 
his parents being dead, and the family broken up, he returned 
to Europe, spent some time in England and in Spain, but 
made his permanent residence in France, and was absent fifteen 
years. His death was very sudden, caused by disease of the 
heart, of which he had previously had one attack. He was 
never married. 



478 NECROLOGY OF ALUMM [1863-63. 

1839. — Samuel Eliot Guild, of Boston, died at his sum- 
mer residence at Nahant, l(i July, 1862, aged 42 years. He 
was son of Benjamin (II. C. 1804) and Eliza (Eliot) Guild, 
and was born in Boston, 8 October, 1819. lie was fitted for 
college at the private school of Henry Russell Cleveland (II.C. 
1827) in Boston. He held a high rank of scholarship in his 
class, and graduated with distinction. After leaving college, he 
studied law tor some time in the office of William Gray (H.C. 
1829), afterwards with Theophilus Parsons (H.C. 1815), of 
Boston, and completed his studies at the Law School in Cam- 
bridge. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1841, and 
established himself in the practice of his profession in Boston, 
where he resided until his decease. He was not ambitious of 
public life, and never held or sought office. In the practice 
of his profession, he pursued the course which was most conge- 
nial to his taste, — a department which, though it does not bring 
the practitioner conspicuously before the public, opens to him an 
honorable and useful career. As a chamber-counsel, convey- 
ancer and manager of property, his good sense, his conscien- 
tious fidelity to his clients, and his quiet and uniform industry, 
gave him all the success which his desires coveted or anticipated. 
He was a gentleman of high moral instincts. He was, in early 
life, a communicant in the Rev. Dr. Gannett's church, and ever 
walked worthily of his religious profession. He was ever ready 
to promote the best interests of the community ; kind, charita- 
ble, endowed with all the amenities of a gentleman, having a 
pleasant word for all with whom he might have intercourse. 

He married, 9 February, 1847, Elizabeth H., daughter of 
Henry Gardner Rice (H.C. 1802), of Boston. The issue 
of this marriage was two children, — a daughter and a son, — 
who, with their mother, survive. 

1842. — Col. William Logan Rodman was killed in the 
attack on Port Hudson, Miss., 27 May, 18G3, at the age of 
40 years. He was the only son of Benjamin and Susan (Mor- 
gan) Rodman, and was born in New Bedford, Mass., 7 March, 
1823. He was fitted for college at the Friends' Academy in 
New Bedford. After graduating, he entered into mercantile 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 479 

business. He visited California during the gold fever, and re- 
turned, by way of Calcutta and the overland route, through 
Europe. He was absent about two years ; and with this excep- 
tion, and his college-life, he was always a resident of New 
Bedford. He was a member of the common-council of that 
city in 1852 ; and, in 1860 and in 1862, represented wards one 
and two of his native city in the legislature. He enlisted in 
the service of his country from the purest motives of patriotic 
duty ; relinquishing the blessings of friends and home, and all 
the attractions which wealth could command, to assume the 
position of a volunteer captain. He was rapidly promoted to 
be major and lieutenant-colonel ; and was the first officer from 
New Bedford who had fallen in battle. The illness of Col. 
Ingraham devolved upon him the command of the regiment 
during the assault of the 27th and the preceding six-days' fight- 
ing, wherein he bore a most gallant part. The " New-Bedford 
Mercury " thus spoke of this lamented officer : " It is fresh in 
the memory of every one in this community, with what earnest- 
ness and zeal Col. Rodman devoted himself to the successful 
labor of raising a company of volunteers for the war, at a time 
when the work of recruiting moved heavily here. His rapid 
promotion from the captaincy of this company to the position, 
first of major, and then of lieutenant-colonel, of the regiment, 
has been justified by the testimony of his superior officers, who 
have warmly commended the care taken of his men, and, most 
of all, by his gallant conduct in action, where he proved him- 
self — as his friends knew he would, in the hour of danger — 
faithful to his duty, a brave soldier. There will be many to 
mourn for him ; remembering how he possessed the fine qual- 
ities which mark the gentleman, the generous nature which made 
him a true friend, and that amiable disposition which endeared 
him to his family and kindred." 

Col. Rodman was never married. 

1843. — Rev. Arthur Buckmlnster Fuller was killed 
in the battle at Fredericksburg, Va., 12 December, 1862, aged 
40 years. He was the third son of Hon. Timothy (H.C. 1801) 
and Margaret (Crane) Fuller, and was born in Cambridge, 



l s <» NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1802-03. 

Mass., L0 August, 1822. At the age of twelve, he Bpent one 
year at Leicester Academy. He was fitted for college by hie 
sister Margaret (who afterwards married Count Ossoli), at 
Groton, and Mrs. Ripley, wife of" Rev. Samuel Ripley, at Wal- 
tham. During his college course, he united with the church con- 
nected with the university. Immediately after graduation, he 
purchased Bclvidere Academy, in Belviderc, Boone county, 111., 
in which, assisted by a competent corps of instructors, he taught 
for the two succeeding years. During this time he occasionally 
preached, as a missionary, in Belviderc and destitute places. He 
was a member of the Illinois conference of Christian and Uni- 
tarian ministers, and by them licensed to preach. His first ser- 
mon was preached October, 1843, in Chicago, to the Unitarian 
church then under the charge of Rev. Joseph Harrington (H.C. 
1833). In 1845, he returned to New England; entered, one 
year in advance, the Cambridge Theological School, where he 
graduated in 1847. After preaching three months at "West 
Newton, he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Unitarian 
society in Manchester, N.H., over which he was ordained 29 
March, 1848, and remained there a little more than five years, 
when he resigned his charge, and was installed over the New 
North Church in Boston, 1 June, 1853. Failing health induced 
him to resign his city pastorate, and close his labors there, 31 
July, 1859. He accepted, however, a call for six months to the 
charge over the Unitarian church in Watertown, Mass., which 
was afterwards renewed for an indefinite time. In 1854, he was 
chaplain of the house of representatives in the legislature ; and, 
in 1850, he was chaplain of the senate. In 1855, he was se- 
lected to deliver a bi-centennial oration, by the citizens of Groton, 
Mass., on the two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of 
that town ; Avhich he did on the 31st of October of that year. 
After the war broke out, he determined to devote himself to the 
cause of his country. He was appointed chaplain in the army, 
11 August, 1861 ; and he then resigned his charge of his society 
in Watertow r n. He proceeded to the seat of war, where he 
continued until his death. At the battle of Fredericksburg, he 
reported himself to Capt. Dunn, of Company D, Nineteenth 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 481 

Regiment, whose company was deployed as skirmishers in the 
principal street, and said he wanted to do something for his 
country. He took a musket, and in five minutes fell dead, 
pierced by a rebel ball. 

Mr. Fuller was a gentleman of great enthusiasm, an ener- 
getic preacher, untiring in the pursuit of the objects at which he 
arrived ; and, in his patriotic zeal in behalf of Iris country, he 
sacrificed his life. 

He married, 18 September, 1850, Elizabeth G. Davenport, 
daughter of Joseph G. and Mary H. Davenport, of Andover, 
Mass. She died 4 March, 1856. He married, for his second 
wife, 28 September, 1859, Emma Lucilla Reeves, who survives 
him. He left three children. 

1843. — Seth Webb died in Scituate, Mass., 31 August, 
1862, aged 39 years. He was son of Seth and Eliza (Dunbar) 
Webb, and was born in Scituate, 14 February, 1823. He was 
prepared for college, partly at a private school in Hingham, 
Mass. ; partly at the academy in Bridgewater ; and from May, 
1837, to August, 1839, at Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H. 
He held a distinguished rank of scholarship in his class. After 
leaving college, he passed the time from November, 1843, to 
June, 1844, in travelling; having gone to New Orleans, 
Jamaica, and Cuba, back to New Orleans, up the river to Cin- 
cinnati, and through the country home. He then pursued the 
study of the law in the office of Hon. George Tyler Bigelow 
(H.C. 1829) and Manlius Stimson Clarke (H.C. 1837), and 
afterwards with Hon. Charles Greely Loring (H.C. 1812). He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Boston, at the July term of 
the Court of Common Pleas; and 1 October, 1845, went into 
practice with O. Z. Chapman, Esq., the partnership continu- 
ing until 1848. From January, 1847, to the autumn of 
1848, he kept a law-office also in Brighton, Mass., where he 
resided most of the time. In the fall of 1848, he gave up his 
Brighton office and his connection with Mr. Chapman. He then 
opened an office in Boston, which he continued until 1 May, 
1851, when he went into partnership in Boston with Charles 
Gideon Davis (H.C. 1840), under the firm of Davis and Webb. 

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J 11 1858, he removed to New York, where lie was admitted to 
the bar, and practised there during that and the following year. 
He then returned, and practised a short time in his native place 
( Scituate), until he gave up his profession on account of ill 
health. In July, 1861, he was appointed United-States com- 
mercial agent at Port-au-Prince, in Hayti ; whither he repaired, 
and remained, until, on account of serious illness, he got leave of 
absence, and returned to his native place, where he died, after a 
lung - illness, of consumption. 

He married, in Boston, 18 November, 1852, Helen Gibbons, 
daughter of George M. and Mary D. (Billings) Gibbons (hav- 
ing been changed from Gibbens, which was the original name). 
They had no children. His wife died very suddenly, 16 June, 
1858. 

1847. — George Andrews died in Salem, Mass., 26 Au- 
gust, 1862, aged 38 years. He was son of John Hancock and 
Nancy (Page) Andrews, and* was born in Salem,' 13 March, 
1824. His father was a merchant of Salem, and died some 
years since. His mother was daughter of Samuel Page, of 
Dan vers, and Rebecca (Putnam) Page, of Sterling, and was a 
direct descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam. He was fitted for 
college at the Salem public Latin School, under the instruction 
of Oliver Carlton (D.C. 1824). After leaving college, he 
studied law in the office of Hon. Asahel Huntington, of Salem 
(Y.C. 1819) ; and was admitted to the Essex bar in due course. 
He practised his profession in Salem during his life. He was 
a representative from Salem to the legislature in 1858 ; was for 
many years a member of the school-committee, a justice of the 
peace and quorum, a special -justice of the Salem Police Court, 
a member of the Essex Institute, a trustee of the Salem Athe- 
naeum, a trustee, secretary, and treasurer of the Plummer Farm 
School, and vice-president of the Salem Lyceum. In his death, 
his native city lost a conscientious, faithful, upright man. By 
his will, in addition to several private legacies, he bequeathed 
to the city of Salem $1,500, the income of which is to be given 
to the high-school scholars most distinguished, not for scholarship 
only, but for faithful and correct deportment. If this dispo- 



1S62-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 483 

sition of the fund is refused by the school-committee, it is then 
to be appropriated to furnish fuel for poor and destitute families ; 
$300 to the Salem Marine Society ; $500 to the Seaman's 
Widow and Orphan Association ; $500 to the Seaman's Orphan 
and Children's Friend Society ; $500 to the Essex Institute ; 
$100 to the Fraternity of Odd Fellows. 

He was never married. 

1848. — John Franklin Goodrich died of brain-fever, in 
the rear of Vicksburg, Miss., 4 June, 1863, aged 36 years. 
He was son of Allen and Mary (Emerson) Goodrich, and was 
born in Mount Vernon, N.H., 13 August, 1826. He was 
fitted for college by the wife of Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Wal- 
tham, Mass. After graduating, he was employed as a clerk, one 
year, in one of the manufacturing companies in Waltham. He 
then went to California, where he remained five years ; and on 
his return settled in Ep worth, Dubuque county, Io. When 
the rebellion broke out, he felt it his duty to enlist ; and went into 
camp in Iowa, 15 September, as a private in the Twenty-first 
Regiment, for three years. He was always in the advance in 
every engagement, and was the first to enter the rifle-pits in the 
charge of Black River ; and was in the thickest of the fight in 
the attempt to carry Vicksburg by storm, in which his company 
lost thirty-three men in killed, wounded, and missing. He was 
in ill health when he went into this, his last battle ; and, though 
he came out unharmed, he was immediately taken with a fever, 
which, together with the previous severe marching and fighting, 
terminated fatally. Among his classmates, he was always con- 
sidered as modest, unpretending, intimate with but few of them, 
leading a religious life ; and at a meeting of his class, several 
years after he left college, he was duly remembered, with a wish 
that he might become as rich as he was «-ood. 

He married, 12 September, 1857, Marion Pratt, of Iowa, 
whose parents were originally from Connecticut. The issue of 
this marriage was three children, — two sons and one daugh- 
ter, — who, with their mother, survive him. 

1848. — Col. William Oliver Stevens died from inju- 
ries received in the battle near Chancellorsville, Va., 5 May, 



484 NECBOLOGT OF ALUMNI 



[1862-68. 



L863, aged 36 years. He was SOI) of William (H.C. L819) 
and Eliza Leach (Watson) Stevens, and was horn in Belfast, 
Me., 3 February, L828. His father was horn in Andover, 
Mass., 2] January, 17!)!); was a lawyer in Andover, but re- 
moved to Lawrence, where he now resides; and is judge of the 
Police ( onrt in that city. His paternal grandfather was a soldier 
in the revolutionary war, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
His mother was horn in Boston, 22 March, 1802; was daugh- 
ter of George and Eliza Watson, and grand-daughter of John 
Watson, of Clark's Island, Plymouth, formerly president of the 
Pilgrim Society. The snhject of this notice was fitted for col- 
lege at Phillips Academy, Andover. After graduating, he 
studied law, during a year and a half, with his father, and, for a 
year and a half afterwards, with Hon. Thomas Wright (H.C. 
1842), of Lawrence. He practised his profession, with much 
success, at Newmans ville, Fla., for ten months, but was obliged 
to leave on account of the debilitating influence of the climate. 
He was summoned on one occasion, at midnight, to the prison 
grates, as counsel for a man who had just been committed on 
a charge of murder. A hideous countenance met his glance 
through the grates ; and, upon his asking the name of his client, 
the answer was, "William Stevens!" In 1852, he went into 
the practice of his profession in Dunkirk, N.Y. In 1859, he 
was elected, by a very flattering vote, district attorney of Cha- 
tauque county, in which Dunkirk is situated ; filled the office for 
two years, to the great acceptance of the bench, the bar, and 
the whole people ; and resigned the unexpired term of three 
years for the military service of his country, in the spring of 
1861. He married, 23 May, 1855, Virginia I. Grosvenor, 
daughter of Hon. Godfrey Grosvenor, of Geneva, N.Y. By 
this marriage he had two sons, — George Watson, seven years 
of age at the time of his father's death, and William Grosvenor, 
twenty months ; and one daughter, who died in infancy. 

Col. Stevens joined the Excelsior Brigade, at Staten Island, 
N.Y., as captain of a company raised in Dunkirk; was elected 
major before leaving Staten Island ; took a conspicuous part in 
the battles of Williamsburg, — where he was slightly wounded, 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 485 

and where his regiment lost over two hundred men, — of Fair 
Oaks, of White-oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill ; losing in the 
last-named battle sixty-one out of three hundred men. He was 
commissioned colonel of the Third Excelsior Regiment on the 
10th of October, 1862 ; his commission dating from 6 Sep- 
tember. His regiment was attached to the Third Army Corps, 
under Gen. Sickles. He led it at the bloody battle of Chan- 
cellorsville, on Sunday, the 3d of May, 1863. The battle 
began at daylight. His horse was shot under him at about six 
o'clock ; after which he headed his regiment on foot. At about 
half-past seven he received a mortal wound, from a minie ball, 
through his chest. A captain and two privates of his regiment 
were in the act of raising him to carry him from the field, when 
the officer was shot. A private received his sword, with the in- 
junction, " Carry it to my wife ; remember me to my boy." 
He was conveyed to a hospital within the rebel lines, about 
a mile from the Chancellor House, where he was kindly cared 
for by our own surgeons and by the enemy, bearing his suffer- 
ings without a murmur or a groan ; during most of the time 
speaking with cheerfulness and hopefulness ; and, during his 
moments of delirium, speaking as to his command, "Forward, 
men ! steady !" He died, without a struggle, at eight o'clock on 
Tuesday evening, 5 May. Immediately after the fall of Col. 
Stevens, a flag of truce was sent into the enemy's lines to recover 
him ; but Gen. Lee would not receive it. The general in imme- 
diate command of the Excelsior Brigade on that day, in writing 
to a friend in Boston, said, " The Excelsior did splendidly, and 
lost heavily ; but no one is to be so much regretted as Col. 
Stevens, who was killed in my sight. He was truly a splendid 
officer, and magnificently brave ; in fact, too good a man to be a 
soldier, and food for powder : for he was a fine lawyer, and has 
left an interesting wife and boys. It was the most terrific fight 
I have ever passed through." 

Dr. Butler, a surgeon in the rebel army, told the father of 
Col. Stevens, who went within their lines to recover his son's 
body, and who remained there ten hours, that the appearance 
and bearing of Col. Stevens were so attractive and soldierly, 



48G NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1862-03. 

that he called several officers of the confederate army to his 

room, to witness his manly beauty and demeanor. Kev. 

George Patterson, chaplain of the Third North-Carolina Vol- 
unteers (rebel), finding him in a room with fourteen other 
wounded men, was attracted to his person, procured for him a 
bed and a private room: for thirty-six hours he watched over 
him as his own father, washed his body, bathed his temples, 
gave him medicine and nourishment ; spoke witli him of his 
wife, his boys, his parents, and his friends, and commended him 
in prayer to God ; closed his eyes in death ; caused him, after 
death, to be dressed in his own uniform ; took from his neck the 
locket of his wife ; his money, bills, and change from his pocket, 
with all his private papers ; folded them in an envelope, and 
caused them to be sent to his wife. This chaplain said to our 
informant, "I was born in Boston. My father was a Greek: 
my mother, if alive, resides in Raynham, Mass. Go and see 
her ; tell her of her son ; for she does not know that I am 
alive." 

Soon after he was carried into the hospital, Col. Stevens was 
asked by the surgeon in attendance, " What regiment do you 
belong to?" The reply was, "The Excelsior."— "Docs that 
regiment belong to the Eleventh Corps?" — "No, sir," was the 
emphatic reply : " my corps never runs from the enemy ! " 

Upon the death of Col. Stevens, resolutions, in the highest 
degree honorable to his fame as a soldier, a lawyer, a citizen, 
as a man, were adopted by the officers of the Excelsior Brigade, 
by the Supreme Court of New York in Chatauque county, by 
the members of the bar, and by the citizens of Dunkirk. 

1849. — John Pegram May was killed in the second bat- 
tle of Bull Run, Va., 29 August, 1862, aged 31 years. He 
was son of David May, of Petersburg, Va., and Maria 
W. Pegram, of Boone ville, Va. ; and was born in Petersburg, 
18 November, 1829, the oldest of five boys and two girls. 
He was married, 15 May, 1850, in the First Presbyterian 
Church in Petersburg, by Rev. A. B. Van Zandt, to Mary 
Dandridge, daughter of the late Nathaniel Hanna, M.D. He 
was killed while in the rebel service. 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 487 

1850. — Henry Edson Hersey died in Hingham, Mass., 
24 February, 1863, aged 32 years. He was son of Capt. 
Stephen and Maria (Lincoln) Hersey, and was born in Hing- 
ham, 28 May, 1830. His father, who was son of Jonathan 
and Ruth (Nichols) Hersey, was born in Hingham, 3 Septem- 
ber, 1797. He was a shipmaster, and was lost at sea, having 
sailed on a voyage several years ago, and the vessel never being 
heard of afterwards. His mother was daughter of Welcome 
and Susanna (Gill) Lincoln, and was born in Hingham, 16 
September, 180(5, where she still resides. The subject of this 
notice early manifested a scholarly taste ; and, after going through 
the customary course of instruction provided by the public 
schools of his native town, he was fitted for college at Derby 
Academy in Hingham, under the tuition of Luther Barker Lin- 
coln (H.C. 1822). He entered the sophomore class in 1847, 
in which he at once took a high rank, and won the esteem of 
his associates, both by his attainments as a scholar, and his 
demeanor as a gentleman. At commencement, the salutatory 
oration was assigned to him. After leaving college, he was 
employed as a private teacher in Charlestown, N.H. ; studying 
law, at the same time, in the office of Hon. Edmund Lambert 
dishing (H.C. 1827). He afterwards continued his pro- 
fessional studies in Boston in the office of Hon. Peleg Whitman 
Chandler (Bowd. C. 1834), and then completed his preparatory 
course in the office of Judge John Phelps Putnam (Y.C. 1837). 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1854, and 
entered upon the practice of his profession in Boston ; opening 
an office also in his native town, which he made his place of 
residence. Soon after establishing himself in business, he began 
to be honored with important and responsible trusts by his 
townspeople. He was repeatedly chosen a member of the 
school-committee, in which capacity he rendered much efficient 
and valuable service. He was one of the trustees of Derby 
Academy, and in that office his fine scholarship and his zeal in 
promoting the work of sound and liberal culture were exerted 
in a way that was creditable to himself, acceptable to his col- 
leagues, and satisfactory to the public. For several years he 



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was superintendent of the First-Parish Sunday School. By 
a diligent use of his talents, and faithful attention to business, lie 
had put himself in a way to obtain a successful practice. The 
future was looking lair and promising, when his health began to 
tail, and, sadly to his disappointment, in the fall of 1861, he was 
obliged to relinquish the duties of his profession; and he made 
a voyage across the Atlantic, accompanied by his wile, and 
passed some months in Spain and the south of France. Soon 
after his return, in the summer of 18G2, it became evident his 
health was not materially improved ; and, after remaining a short 
time in Hingham, he sought the relief which he hoped the cli- 
mate of New r Hampshire might afford. There he remained a i'vw 
months, when his vital energies had become so exhausted, that 
he once more returned to the quiet repose and loving care of 
home. Here the slow wasting of consumption terminated 
in his decease at his mother's residence. 

He married, 20 March, 1856, Catharine, only daughter of 
Col. H. H. Sylvester, of Charlestown, N.H. 

1851. — William Nye Davis, of Boston, died in Xice, 
France, 24 February, 1863, aged 32 years. He was son of 
John Watson (H.C. 1810) and Susan Holden (Tallman) Davis, 
and was born in Boston, 2 December, 1830. He began his pre- 
paratory studies for college at the Boston Latin School, where he 
remained nearly five years, leaving in the spring of 1847, when 
he became a pupil of Shattuck Hartwell (H.C. 1844), who was 
at that time a tutor in college, with whom he continued until he 
entered the freshman class at the beginning of the second term, 
February, 1848. After graduating, he began the study of law 
in the Law School in Cambridge, and completed his studies under 
the instruction of William Howard Gardiner (H.C. 1816), of 
Boston. On his admission to the Suffolk bar, he established 
himself in the practice of his profession in Boston. 

He married, 24 March, 1856, Mary C, daughter of William 
Howard Gardiner, of Boston. They had no children. In 
1860, on account of pulmonary affection, he went to France, 
accompanied by his wife, for the benefit of his health. AYhile 
residing in Nice, he met with a most heartrending affliction, on 



1862-63.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 489 

the 8tli or 9th of February, 1863, by the sudden death of his 
wife, caused by her clothes accidentally taking fire. This sad 
event completely overcame him. He was soon afterwards 
attacked twice by severe hemorrhage from the lungs, and sur- 
vived his wife only about two weeks. 

1851. — Major William Dwigiit Sedgwick died at Kee- 
dysville, Md., 30 September, 1862, of wounds received at the 
battle of Antietam, 17th of the same month, aged 31 years. 
He was the only son of Charles and Elizabeth (D wight) 
Sedgwick, and was born in Lenox, Mass., 27 June, 1831. At 
the age of fourteen years, his father sent him to Illinois, where 
he spent a summer with a farmer, who was a relative, and w r ho 
then lived in a log-house ; where he learned and performed every 
kind of farm-work of which a boy of that age is capable. His 
father believed, that, without some personal knowledge and expe- 
perience of labor, he could not have a proper sympathy with 
laboring men. He spent one year at a French school in New 
York, and one in a boys' school taught by Rev. Samuel P. Parker 
(H.C. 1824) in Stockbridge, Mass. ; and pursued the studies 
preparatory to admission into college under the instruction of 
his mother, and at the academy in Lenox. After leaving col- 
lege, he spent a winter in a law-office : then went abroad, and 
studied a portion of his professsion, first in the University of 
Gottingen, and then in that of Breslau. He was abroad about 
seventeen months. Soon after his return, he entered the Cam- 
bridge Law School, where he remained a year, and then estab- 
lished himself as a lawyer in St. Louis, Mo. After the breaking- 
out of the Avar, he forsook his profession, and was commissioned 
as a lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment. He went 
into the service with the regiment ; w T as made ordnance-officer 
of Gen. Banks's corps ; and was soon promoted to the rank of 
major on the staff of his kinsman, Gen. Sedgwick, with many 
and weighty duties faithfully discharged. All through the fear- 
ful battles before Richmond, he went with little food, almost 
without sleep, for days, worn down with fatigue and exhaustion, 
fighting at every step, and winning the praise of his chief. In 
the great battle of Antietam, while attempting to rally and 

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490 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1862-63. 

re-form a regiment in some disorder, he received a fatal wound. 
Seven hours and a half — from half-past eight in the morning 
until half-past three in the afternoon — he lay on the hard 
ploughed ground ; while the shells, the cannon-balls, and the 
bullets of the foe were showering over and around him. As 
he was lying there, his body from his waist to his feet para- 
lyzed, and unable to move, he felt for his diary, and wrote in it 
a few modest, manly words, " Say that he tried to do his duty ; " 
and making some suggestions in behalf of his family. At the 
close of a long letter, in which he gave his share of the dreadful 
news and sufferings of the retreat from before Richmond, he 
said, "My country is welcome to every drop of my blood." 
He was fully persuaded that the war would be fruitless, com- 
paratively, unless slavery were completely eradicated ; and said, 
" I love my wife and children as well as any man ; but I would 
engage never to see them again, if thereby I could secure the 
eradication of slavery." 

He married in 1857, at Hanover, Germany, Louisa Frede- 
rica Tellkampf, daughter of Professor Adolf Tellkampf, of that 
place. He left three little girls, the youngest of whom he never 
saw. She was born in July, 1861, after he had enlisted in the 
army, and bidden what proved to be his last farewell. 

1851. — Kev. Theodore Tebbets died in New- York city, 
29 January, 1863, aged 31 years. He was son of Hon. Noah 
(Bowd. C. 1822) and Mary Esther (Woodman) Tebbets, and 
was born in Parsonsfield, Me., 1 April, 1831. His father, the 
son of James (a blacksmith) and Mary (Nutter) Tebbets, was 
born in Rochester, N.H., 26 December, 1802; was a lawyer 
and circuit-judge of the Court of Common Pleas of New Hamp- 
shire ; and moved from Parsonsfield to Rochester, in November, 
1834 or 1835, where he died 9 September, 1844. His mother 
was daughter of Jeremiah Hall (D.C. 1794), a lawyer of 
Portsmouth, N.H., and Sarah (Chase) Woodman ; was born 
in Portsmouth, 12 January, 1808 ; and was grand-daughter of 
Stephen Chase (H.C. 1764), a merchant of Portsmouth. In 
May, 1845, the subject of this notice went to Parsonsfield to 
live on a farm; and in the following August left, and entered 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 401 

Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H. In August, 1847, he 
entered Bowdoin College, but returned to Exeter to fit for ad- 
mission, a year in advance, at Harvard, as all his friends went 
to Cambridge. He procured a dismission from BoAvdoin, and 
entered the sophomore class of Harvard, in August, 1848. 
Being entirely without property, he was supported by his own 
exertions, and by the funds for assisting poor students at Exeter 
and Cambridge. He taught school, in the winter of 1847—8, 
in Rochester, N.H. He attained a high rank of scholarship in 
college. He took the first Bowdoin prize for English composi- 
tion, in the senior year, for a dissertation on " The Characteristics 
of a Philosophical History ; " also the prize for Latin prose 
composition, for a dissertation, "De Sepulchris Etruscis ;" and, 
at commencement, the fifth English oration was assigned to him. 
After graduating, he entered the Divinity School at Cambridge, 
where he remained till February, 1852. From March, 1852, 
to July, 1853, he was teacher of the ancient languages in Exeter 
Academy ; and from October, 1854, to July, 1855, was proctor 
in college. He was ordained as pastor of the Smith Unitarian 
Church in Lowell, as successor of Rev. Henry A. Miles (B.U. 
1829), 19 September, 1857. He preached two Sundays, and 
was taken with a typhoid-fever, from which he did not recover 
entirely for a year. He resigned his pastorate in May, 1856, 
and spent the summer at the Isle of Shoals. In January, 1857, 
he received a call from the First Parish in Medford, as suc- 
cessor of Rev. John Pierpont ; and was installed 15 April, 1857. 
In the autumn of 1858, he was attacked with symptoms of pul- 
monary disease, which resulted in a slight hemorrhage in 
February, 1859 : he had preached in the mean while, with the 
exception of one Sunday. He left New York for the South, 14 
February, 1859, and spent the winter in Savannah and Florida ; 
but returned in the spring, and resumed preaching. He preached 
three half-days, and then was attacked with a severe hemorrhage 
from the lungs ; went to the Isle of Shoals, 1 August, where 
he remained till 18 November, gaining health and strength. 
He went to Savannah again, 14 January, 1860 ; and thence to 
Florida, where he remained till 3 May ; thence to Savannah, 



492 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1862-43. 

and returned to Medford. Finding the life of a minister was 
out of the question, he sent in a peremptory resignation ; preached 
for the last time, 12 July ; and his resignation was accepted 

1 August, l.S. r )9. 

lie afterwards went into business as a coal-dealer in Boston, 
and opened an office at No. 3, Merchants' Exchange ; but was 
soon afterwards obliged to relinquish it on account of his health. 
The closing years of his life tested and testified to the strength 
of his religious faith. With unsurpassed patience, a patience 
that veiled itself with cheerfulness, asking neither for sympathy 
nor pity, he submitted to the loss of all his most cherished pur- 
suits. Not only the profession he so loved, but all study and 
continuous effort, must be relinquished ; and yet no one ever 
heard him refer to baffled hopes, or indicate that he was pecu- 
liarly unfortunate. His faith in the all-wise Father was the pillar 
of fire through the darkness. 

His printed works were several articles in the f ' Monthly Ke- 
ligious Magazine ; " also a sermon in the same magazine for 
May, 1858, on "The Revival ;" "A Memoir of the late Judge 
Tebbets, of New Hampshire ; " " A Memoir of William Gib- 
bons." 

He married, 3 June, 1857, Ellen Sever, daughter of Col. 
John and Anna Dana Sever, of Kingston, Mass. They had 
one son, John Sever, born 4 July, 1858. 

1852. — Dr. Samuel Foster Haven was killed at the bat- 
tle of Fredericksburg, 13 December, 1862, aged 30 years. He 
was the only son of Samuel Foster (H.C. 1826) and Lydia 
Gibbon (Sears) Haven, and was born at the house of his grand- 
father, Hon. Samuel Haven (H.C. 1789), in Dedham, Mass., 
20 May, 1831. In August of the same year, he went with 
his parents to live in Dracut, Mass., where they resided a little 
more than one year. They then removed to Lowell, where his 
father practised law. After living there three years, he spent 
the winter of 1835-6 in Dedham. In April, 1836, he was 
sent to Salem to live with a private family. About a year af- 
terwards, he returned to Dedham ; and soon afterwards went to 
a boarding-school in Needham, where he remained three years. 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 493 

In 1839, he went to live in Worcester with his father, who had 
removed thither in 1837, where he now resides, and holds the 
office of librarian of the Antiquarian Society. The subject of 
this notice was fitted for college at the Worcester High School. 

In January, 1853, he began his medical studies in the 
office of Dr. Henry Sargent, of Worcester ; and was next in the 
Medical School at Boston. The last year of his studies, he 
had the appointment of house pupil at the Massachusetts Gen- 
eral Hospital. He graduated at the Medical College, 7 March, 
1855 ; and, the same year, he was admitted a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society. In the summer of the same 
year, he went abroad for professional improvement, with particu- 
lar reference to the department of ophthalmology. He spent a 
winter in Paris, and passed the following year partly at Vienna 
and partly at Berlin. On his return to Boston, he took an 
office in Asylum Street ; but, in the spring of 1858, he removed 
to Worcester, where he proposed to attend chiefly to diseases of 
the eye. At the beginning of the war, he immediately offered 
to enter the service ; and, when the Fifteenth Massachusetts 
Regiment was organized, he joined it as assistant-surgeon. 
The illness and absence of the senior-surgeon left him alone in 
the medical care of the regiment for many months ; and, on the 
ultimate retirement of that officer, he was commissioned in his 
place. During the whole of his service, he devoted all his ener- 
gies to the discharge of his duties, and never left his post for 
rest or recreation. Believing it to be his duty to be where he 
could render instant aid to the wounded, he always accompanied 
his regiment into battle, entirely regardless of personal exposure. 
When his regiment went into the engagement at Fredericksburg, 
where he lost his life, he was remonstrated with by the medical 
director of the division for wanting to go with them, and ordered 
to report himself at the hospital ; but his desire to be with the 
men was so urgent, that he was permitted to accompany them : 
and he was killed by a shell, while marching by the side of the 
color-bearer, 13 December, 1862. 

He had neither the faculty nor disposition for slighting any 
part of his duty ; and, whatever he undertook to do, his nature 



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[1862-63. 



required him to do earnestly and thoroughly. By his presence 
in the midst of the conflicts, he is said, by an officer, to have 
saved lives that must otherwise have been lost for want of imme- 
diate attention ; and the consciousness of such a possibility, in his 
judgment, not only justified, but demanded, the personal expo- 
sure of the surgeon to the same risks that were encountered by 
the men. He was a careful student, and fond of literary and 
scientific research. Two of his essays were printed ; one on 
" Intestinal Obstructions," and one on " Cysterci within the 
Eye." When he entered the army, he had nearly ready for the 
press a chronological catalogue of books and pamphlets printed 
in this country from its settlement to the period of the revolu- 
tion, with an introductory chapter. This was a continuation and 
extension of a list which was begun by Isaiah Thomas, the author 
of the " History of Printing in America," but never completed, or 
arranged from the materials he had gathered. He w T as in the 
battles of Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Savage's Station, 
the seven-days' fighting on the retreat to Harrison's Landing, 
Antietam (where his regiment was very badly cut to pieces ) , and 
the first battle of Fredericksburg. 

1852. — Capt. William Duncan McKim was killed in the 
rebel service in the battle of Chancellorsville, 3 May, 1863, 
aged 30 years. He was son of William and Margaret I). 
(Hollins) McKim, and was born in Baltimore, Md., 27 June, 
1832. His father was son of William Duncan and Susan 
(Haslett, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland) McKim, and was 
born 21 December, 1808; is a banker in Baltimore; one of 
their most esteemed citizens and straight-out union-men. His 
mother was daughter of John Smith and Rebecca (Dugan) 
Hollins, and was born in Baltimore, April, 1810. The subject 
of this notice always lived in Baltimore ; was fitted for college 
by Michael R. McNally, and entered at the beginning of the 
second term of the sophomore year. 

1852. — Col. Paul Joseph Revere died of wounds re- 
ceived in the battle of Gettysburg, Penn., 4 July, 1863, aged 
30 years. He was son of Joseph Warren and Mary (Bobbins) 
Revere, and was born in Boston, 10 September, 1832. His 



1862-63.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 495 

father was son of Paul Revere of revolutionary history, who 
changed his name from Revoir. Paul's father's name was Apol- 
los ; was born in France ; went to the Isle of Guernsey when 
young ; and his father, Simeon, was obliged to leave the country 
at the revocation of the edict of Nantes. The mother of the 
subject of this notice was a daughter of Judge Edward Hutch- 
inson Robbins (H.C. 1775), of Milton. In 1839, young Re- 
vere went to Milton Academy, where he remained four years 
under Mr. Marsh ; then went about a year and a half to the 
Boston Latin School ; then about a year to Rev. Samuel Ripley 
(H.C. 1804), of Waltham ; then about a year to Mr. William 
Hathorne Brooks (H.C. 1827), of Boston; then to Dr. W. A. 
Davis, of Dorchester, previously of Roxbury ; then, about six 
months before entering the sophomore class, was with John 
Brooks Felton (H.C. 1847), in Cambridge. He did not study 
any profession after leaving college. When the war broke out, 
lie volunteered his services in behalf of his country. He was 
commissioned major in the Twentieth Regiment of Volunteers ; 
was in the battle of Ball's Bluff, where he was taken prisoner, 
carried to Richmond, and kept in close confinement for several 
months ; being one of the officers held by the rebels as hostages 
for the rebel privateersmen. After his exchange, he was pro- 
moted to be colonel of the Twentieth Regiment. 

He married, 17 March, 1859, Lucretia Watson, daughter of 
Rev. AVilliam Parsons Lunt (H.C. 1823), of Quincy. The 
issue of this marriage was two children, — one son and orle 
daughter, — who, with their mother, survive him. 

1852. — Dr. Robert Ware died in Washington, N.C., 
10 April, 1863, aged 29 years. He was son of Dr. John 
(H.C. 1813) and Helen (Lincoln) Ware, and was born in 
Boston, 2 September, 1833. He was fitted for college at the 
Boston Latin School. On leaving college, he determined to 
enter the medical profession. He began his studies under the 
instruction of his father, with whom he continued until May, 
1854- ; when he went to Europe, where he remained until Sep- 
tember, 1855, spending about six months of the time in Paris, 
studying in the French hospitals. On his return, he continued 



496 NECROLOGY OF ALU JIM [1862-63. 

his studies with his father, and graduated at the Medical School 
in 1856, when he began the practice of his profession in Boston. 
In July, 1857, he was appointed one of the district physicians 
of the Boston Dispensary, lie was remarkably successful in 
his practice ; which increased rapidly, as his father was intend- 
ing to relinquish the profession to his son. On the breaking- 
out of the war, he was one of the first physicians to enter 
the service of the Sanitary Commission, and continued in its 
service until the close of the Peninsula campaign in Virginia. 
He was subsequently appointed surgeon of the Forty-fourth 
Massachusetts Regiment, with which he left for the seat of war. 
On his arrival in North Carolina, his arduous labors and ex- 
posures to the unhealthy climate brought on a fever, of which 
he died, after a few days' illness. Such is the brief record of 
a life of stainless virtue, and of modest, wise, and effective de- 
votion to the public service. His manly, thoughtful, earnest 
simplicity indicated all the ancestral virtues that were shining 
in his character. Few gave such promise of eminence in his 
profession. But one so wise, so virtuous, was well prepared to 
sacrifice his life in the service of his country. 

He w T as never married. 

1852. — Major Sidney Willarjd was killed in the battle of 
Fredericksburg, Va., 14 December, 1862, aged 31 years. He 
was son of Joseph (H.C. 1816) and Susannah Hicklin (Lewis) 
Willard, and was born in Lancaster, Mass., 3 February, 1831. 
In 1831, he, with his parents, removed to Boston, which was 
his subsequent residence. He was fitted for college at the Bos- 
ton Latin School. While an undergraduate, he was a diligent 
student, and held a respectable rank in his class. In his junior 
year, he taught school, during the winter vacation, in Deerfield, 
Mass. He was distinguished for his athletic powers and his in- 
vincible courage. After graduating, he entered the Harvard 
Law School, and remained there a little more than one term. 
From April, 1853, to May, 1854, he was teaching in Charles- 
town, N.H., and at the same time studying law in the office of 
Judges Cushing and Gilchrist. In June, 1854, he entered the 
office of Hon. Charles Greely Loring (H.C. 1812), of Boston. 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 497 

He was admitted to the bar, 19 April, 1856. In July, 1856, 
he went to the West, and returned to Boston, after an absence 
of about three months. In October, 1856, he opened an office 
in Court Street, where he remained until he left for the seat of 
war. His moral character was irreproachable. From moral 
conviction, he was strongly antislavery in his principles. From 
1854, besides being occupied by his profession, he was more or 
less engaged in giving instruction to private pupils. He wrote 
an article entitled "A Night in a Wherry," which was pub- 
lished in the M Atlantic Monthly " for October, strongly indica- 
tive of his insensibility to fear. In the summer of 1862, he 
determined to devote himself to the service of his country ; and, 
having a taste for the military art, was commissioned as a major 
of the Thirty-fifth Regiment of the Massachusetts troops. He 
was employed for some time before his departure in drilling- 
soldiers, at which he was very expert. 

He married, 21 August, 1862, Sarah Ripley, daughter of 
Augustus Henry Fiske (H.C. 1825), of Boston; and left the 
next day, with his regiment, for the seat of war ; bidding, sad to 
say, a last farewell to his newly married wife. 

1853. — Lieut. -Col. Wilder Dwight died in a hospital, 
near Boonesborough, Md., 19 September, 1862, of wounds 
received in the battle of Antietam. He was son of Wil- 
liam (H.C. 1825) and Elizabeth Amelia (White) Dwight, 
and was born in Springfield, Mass., 23 April, 1833. His 
father was son of Hon. Jonathan Dwight (H.C. 1793) ; was 
born in Springfield, 5 April, 1805 ; and was a lawyer in that 
place ; but subsequently removed to Boston, where he en- 
gaged in manufactures, residing in Brookline. His mother 
was a daughter of the late Hon. Daniel Appleton White 
(H.C. 1797), and was born in Salem, Mass., 4 August, 
1809. 

He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy in Exe- 
ter, N.H. He attained a distinguished rank of scholarship in 
his class, and graduated with high honors. Immediately after 
graduating, he entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he 
gained the first prize in 1855. He then visited Europe, where 

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498 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1863-68. 

he spent fifteen months, travelling through Spain, in company 
with Hun. .Millard Fillmore. On hie return, he pursued his 
law-studies in the office of Hon. Caleb Cushing (H.C. 
1N17), the attorney-general of the United States; and in that 
of Hon. Ebenezer Rock wood Hoar (H.C. 1835), and Horace 
Gray, jun. , Esq. (II. C. 1845). He was admited to the bar 
in 1856, and began practice in Boston in 1858, where he soon 
gave promise of future eminence in his profession ; and no 
man of his age had a higher position at the bar when lie left 
the profession for the field. He had studied law with great 
assiduity ; and his knowledge of the sciences was not only ex- 
tensive and exact, but also systematic and practical. He fre- 
quently, during the four years he was in practice, appeared 
before the Supreme Court ; and many of his arguments there 
displayed learning, research, and vigorous practical logic, which 
promised to make him leader of the profession. 

^Yllen the war broke out, he left his profession to serve 
his country ; and, with Col. Gordon, organized the Second 
Massachusetts Regiment ; one of the first two regiments which 
entered the field under the President's original call for three- 
years' men. In the summer of 1861, he was commissioned as 
major, and served through the laborious campaign on the 
Potomac. The Second Massachusetts, under Col. Gordon, 
covered the disastrous retreat of Gen. Banks down the She- 
nandoah. At Winchester, after a display of individual cour- 
age and admirable presence of mind, he was taken prisoner, 
but was immediately paroled. When Col. Gordon, for his 
distinguished services, was promoted to the rank of brigadier- 
general, Major Dwight became lieutenant-colonel of the regi- 
ment. After his exchange, he returned to active service ; and 
in the battle of Antietam, 16 September, 1862, received his 
mortal wound. He was distinguished for singular independ- 
ence of character. His thought was clear and well defined, his 
statements lucid, his convictions strong. The same rare traits 
adorned his short professional career ; and, seconded by other 
shining qualities, enabled him to achieve a reputation, as a 
military officer, beyond that of most civilians. His clearness 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 499 

of insight, his promptness of execution, his decision of charac- 
ter, his insensibility to fear, and his dignified familiarity, won 
the confidence, the admiration, and the love of his command. 

1854. — Capt. Richard Chapman Goodwin was killed 
in the battle at Cedar Mountain, Va., 9 August, 1862, at the 
age of 28 years. He was the oldest son of Ozias and Lucy N. 
(Chapman) Goodwin, and was born in Boston, 11 October, 
1833. He went to a private school in Boston until 1845, and 
then entered the Latin school, where he was fitted for college. 
After graduating, he determined to pursue the mercantile profes- 
sion ; and in August, 1854, he entered the counting-room of 
William Story Bullard, of Boston ; but soon afterwards went 
abroad, where he spent several years in foreign travel, and 
returned in 1858. In 1861, immediately after the breaking-out 
of the rebellion, he raised a company of Massachusetts volun- 
teers, of which he was appointed captain ; and was attached, as 
Company K, to the Second Regiment, under Col. George H. 
Gordon. 

1854. — Edmund Rhett died in Spartansburg, S.C., 15 
February, 1863, aged 29 years. lie was son of Hon. Robert 
Barnwell and Elizabeth (Burnet) Rhett, and was born in 
Charleston, S.C., 19 November, 1833. His time, before enter- 
ing college, was passed between Washington, Charleston, and 
his father's plantation on the Ashepoo River. He returned 
from Washington in 1848 ; when his father resigned the seat he 
had held in the lower house for about thirteen years. He entered 
the sophomore class of the South-Carolina College in 1850 ; 
took an honorable dismission, with one hundred and ten others, 
in December, 1852, on account of certain differences which arose 
between the students and the college-government ; and entered, 
in March, 1853, the junior class, half advanced, at Harvard. In 
alluding to himself, he said, when in college, "As my first 
appearance in this world of jests was amidst the disturbances of 
nullification in South Carolina, so probably will my life continue 
through a scries of political struggles and commotions only ; 
but the last act which it shall witness will be more effective, 
and more finally decisive for the maintenance of the integrity of 
my state, than the first." 



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Tie afterwards studied law in Charleston, and intended to 

practise in California; but he afterwards became assistant-editor 
of the "Charleston Mercury,'' of which paper his father was 
proprietor. 

1854. — Lieut. -Col. James Savage died in the hospital 
in Charlottesville, Va. , 22 September, 1862, of wounds re- 
ceived in the battle at Cedar Mountain on the 9th of August, 
aged 30 years. He was the only son of Hon. James (II. I '. 
1803) and Elizabeth Otis (Stillman) Savage, and was born in 
Boston, 21 April, 1832. He was fitted for college at the Bos- 
ton Latin School, and held a respectable, but not distinguished, 
rank in his class. 

The love of excellence, rather than the ambition to excel, 
was always a controlling motive in his life and conduct. He 
secured the respect of his teachers by the correctness and purity 
of his course, and was much beloved by his classmates for the 
rare truth and nobleness of his character. He early showed a 
great love for music; and this, with the study of horticulture, 
equally an object of his regard, filled all his leisure hours. Soon 
after leaving college, he went to Europe, where he remained two 
years, profiting by the instructions of Professor Liebig and 
others, at Munich and Berlin, in agricultural chemistry, and 
other departments ; visiting, with a student's appreciation, the 
galleries of art, and cultivating his taste for music. Upon his 
return, he was undetermined as to the path in life he should 
take, having no decided taste for either of the so-called learned 
professions, and having found, by six months' reading of 
law, that the confinement incident to them was incompatible 
with his health. With more than common muscular strength 
and activity, a person manly and vigorous, and presenting all 
the external aspects of health, his constitution was such as to 
make sedentary employments pernicious, and much exercise in 
the open air necessary. Fond of rural employments, of which 
he had acquired no small knowledge from his studies and ob- 
servations at home and abroad, and enjoying nature with a 
poetical enthusiasm, he determined to make agriculture, his 
profession ; and, with that view, purchased a small farm in the 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 501 

town of Ashland, where, for two years, he spent most of his 
time in the practical labors of the husbandman. In the midst 
of these occupations, he became interested in the great ques- 
tions of the day, and gave his heartiest sympathy to the cause 
of human freedom. The strong love of justice inherited from 
his father, showing itself in indignation against wrong and op- 
pression in every form, was confirmed at this time by his reading 
and reflection, and prepared him to take an active part in the 
defence of free principles whenever they were assailed. Fol- 
lowing these convictions, as well as his interest in the occasion 
itself, he attended the meetings in connection with the death of 
John Brown, held in December, 1860, where he remained 
through the day, despite the insults of a vulgar and excited mob, 
and showed then, and on subsequent occasions, his determina- 
tion, at all personal risks, to protect freedom of discussion, and, 
as he said, w to give fair play." With these characteristics, it 
need hardly be said that he responded to the first call of his 
country for defenders in the field with a deep and earnest en- 
thusiasm. Already, in anticipation of such a call, he had been 
devoting himself to the practice and study of military tactics as 
a member of a drill-club, and had shown his superior fitness for 
the duties of a soldier. With his friends Dwight and Curtis, 
he Avorked zealously in organizing the Second Regiment of 
Massachusetts Volunteers, since so distinguished for its disci- 
pline, valor, and sacrifices ; and, with his friend and lieutenant, 
Henry Higginson, recruited the company placed under his com- 
mand. His regiment left Boston on the 8th of July, 1861. 
Its subsequent career is part of the history of the country. In 
all its fortunes, whether successful or adverse, Capt. Savage 
bore a distinguished part. During fourteen months of his la- 
borious service, he never asked a furlough ; nor was he ever 
absent from his post, except when suffering from a fever con- 
tracted on picket-duty on the Potomac. The men under his 
command were noted for their orderly conduct, as well as for 
their endurance and unflinching courage in all the trials of camp 
and march and battle-field. With a heart as tender as it was 
brave, his profession served to bring out more distinctly the gentle 



502 NBCEOLOGT OP ALUMNI [1862-63. 

and generous qualities, which, in times of peace, had made him so 
dear to his kindred and friends. This union of gentleness with 
the sterner traits of character is illustrated by the incident, thai 
in the Shenandoah campaign, while pursuing a squad of rebel 
cavalry who had fired on our pickets, lie snatched from the 
ground the first flower of spring, a humble hepatica, as it 
attracted his attention in the dry oak-leaves, not relaxing for an 
instant his eager chase. Of his tender thoughtfulness, what 
more touching evidence could be given than his offering of roses 
to the dying German bugler of the New- York Eighth, at Win- 
chester, accompanied by kind words in the language that 
recalled his fatherland? 

The following tribute to Col. Savage's worth as a patriot and 
soldier is copied from the " Boston Daily Advertiser,'' to which 
it was contributed by Col. Samuel M, Quincy, soon after the 
news of Col. Savage's death: — 

" Of Col. Savage's life previous to the war, of the services of the 
regiment to which he belonged, and the manner of his death, others 
have written. It is my desire simply to bear witness to the estima- 
tion in which his character was held, and the appreciation winch it 
received among his fellow-oflicers. He was universally acknowledged 
to have entered the service simply and entirely from his sense of duty, 
and conviction of right. With others, although^ patriotism was. 
beyond doubt, the underlying motive, still each man was conscious of 
a variety of inducements and reasons which influenced his final deci- 
sion. Not so with Savage : the cause of freedom and right was to 
be fought for ; and, beyond that, he never thought of looking. For 
his character, as it was developed and brought to our notice by the 
varied duties and experiences of the campaign, the feeling of admira- 
tion was universal. To an almost feminine gentleness and amiability 
he joined the indomitable energy and resolution which became the 
man. When, before the regiment had yet been in action, officers 
around their camp- or picket- fires at night would discuss its probable 
behavior, there was one universal sentiment ; viz., that ' Jim Savage,' 
at least, would fight, as it was once expressed, ' like Mr. Valiant-for- 
Trttth, until Ins sword clove to his hand : ' and tins prediction he well 
fulfilled at Newtown, Winchester, and Cedar Mountain ; on which 
lust disastrous field he fell, struck by two bullets. As he lay on the 



1862-63.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 503 

field, lie was found by Capt. Russell, whom he earnestly requested not 
to remain, but to save himself; which request, it is needless to say, 
that officer disregarded, though at the expense of his own safety. 
Col. Savage was taken to Charlottesville, where it is gratifying to 
think that he found friends, and where, on the 22d of October, 1862, 
his mortal frame had no longer strength to retain the soul of one of 
the bravest Christian gentlemen that ever drew sword for the right 
since the Avorld began. He was the only man ever known to the 
writer who seemed fully to observe the title given to the model of 
French knighthood, — Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche." 

1856. — Lieut. Stephen George Perkins was killed in 
the battle at Cedar Mountain, Va., 9 August, 1862, at the age 
of 26 years. He was son of Stephen H. and Sarah S. (Sullivan) 
Perkins, and was born in Boston, 18 September, 1835. He 
was fitted for college partly by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford 
(H.C. 1822), and partly by William Parsons Atkinson (H.C. 
1838). After graduation he travelled in Europe, and returned 
in October, 1857. He joined the Law School in Cambridge at 
the March term in 1858 ; and joined the Scientific School in 
September, 1859, as a student in mathematics ; where he re- 
mained until he resolved to devote his services to aid in the 
preservation of the Union. He received a commission as 
second-lieutenant in Company H, of the Second Regiment, 
under Col. George H. Gordon ; where he remained, discharging 
his duty with great ardor, until his life was sacrificed in defend- 
ing the flag which Avas so dear to him. 

1857. — Capt. Howard Dwight was killed by guerillas 
7 May, 1863, at' Courtableau, on the Mississippi River, while 
bearing despatches from his brother, Gen. Dwight, — to whose 
staff he Avas attached, — to Gen. Banks. He Avas son of Wil- 
liam (H.C. 1825) and Elizabeth Amelia (White) Dwight, 
and was born in Springfield, Mass., 29 October, 1837. He 
was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.H. After 
graduating, he went to the West, where he was engaged in 
business when the Avar broke out. He immediately enlisted, 
and devoted what proved to be the remainder of his life to the 
service of his country. The manner of his death is thus de- 



504 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1862-63. 

scribed in a New-Orleans paper: rf He left the headquarters of 
his brother on the morning of the 4th; and, proceeding rapidly 
along the road from Alexandria to Franklin, on reaching 
Cour tableau, he was hailed by three rebel guerillas. I [e stopped, 

and asked them who they were ; when they presented their 
revolvers, and asked him to dismount. As there were three to 
one, and the captain was unarmed, he was forced to comply ; 
remarking, ( I cannot help myself, and therefore surrender.' 
But the heartless representatives of the chivalry retorted, ' We 
don't want a prisoner : ' and they immediately fired two shots at 
him, one of which took effect in his leg ; but the other, which 
proved mortal, passed through his head. The guerillas then 
left him lying on the road ; but the body was watched over by a 
small boy who had witnessed the cold-blooded transaction, 
and who afterwards related the circumstances to some of Gen. 
Dwight's cavalry which happened to pass that way soon after, 
and found the body." 

His genial social qualities, his unflinching bravery, and his 
sterling character, had endeared him to his fellow-officers ; and 
his death and the manner of it will not be quiekly forgotten. 

A meeting of the members of his class in college was held on 
the 20th of May, and a series of resolutions passed expressive 
of their sense of his merits as a genial companion, a beloved 
classmate ; and " that the atrocious circumstances of his death 
make it peculiarly a martyrdom ; and that his cherished memory 
shall give a new earnestness to our loyalty to the great cause 
in the defence of which he fell." 

1857. — Samuel Breck Parkm an was killed in the battle 
of Antietam, Md., 17 September, 1862, aged 26 years. He 
was born in Savannah, Ga., 1 November, 1836. He was 
in the rebel army, first-lieutenant of Reed's Battery, from 
Georgia ; and was major upon Gen. Longstreet's staff when he 
was killed. He was left an orphan at an early age, by the loss 
of both parents in the steamer "Pulaski," which was destroyed 
by fire, when off the coast of North Carolina, on her passage 
from Charleston for Baltimore, 14 June, 1838. Among the 
names of those lost were Mr. S. B. Parkman, Master Park- 



1862-63.] OP HAEVARD COLLEGE. 505 

man, Miss A. Parkman, Miss C. Parkman, Miss T. Parkman. 
In a paragraph in the account of the burning of the steamer, 
it is stated that " the persons by the name of Parkman 
were the family of S. B. Parkman, of Savannah, and formerly 
of Westborough, Mass." They were probably descendants of 
Rev. Ebenezer Parkman (H.C. 1721), who was born in 
Boston, 5 September, 1703 ; was ordained pastor of the church 
of Westborough, 28 October, 1724; and died 9 December, 
1782, aged 80 years. The subject of this notice was cared 
for by an aunt, who supplied the place of a mother to him. He 
had two sisters. He passed some time at the military-school 
in Sing-Sing, N.Y., before entering college. After gradu- 
ating, he read law in Savannah, and was admitted to practice in 
due time ; became a member of the Georgia Historical Society ; 
and fin-ally joined the Savannah troop of cavalry. In the sum- 
mer of 1860, he travelled in Europe ; returned in the fall, and 
visited Boston. 

He married, in December, 1860, Nannie Bierne, of Virginia, 
a very wealthy lady. 

1857. — George Whittemore was killed in the battle of 
Antietam, Md., 17 September, 1862, at the age of 25 years. 
He was the son of George and Anna (Mansfield) Whittemore, 
and was born in Boston, 19 December, 1836. He was educated 
at the public schools in Boston ; and was prepared for admis- 
sion to college at the public Latin School, where a Franklin 
medal was awarded to him in 1853. His parents removed 
from Boston to Gloucester, Mass., during his last year at the 
Latin school ; and this town was his home during his college- 
course. Soon after entering upon his college-course, he attained 
a high rank among the best scholars in his class, and grad- 
uated with honors. During three of the winters while in college, 
he taught school in Gloucester and Northampton. After grad- 
uating, he was for a time an assistant in the private latin-school 
of Mr. Epes Sargent Dixwell (H.C. 1827) in Boston. He 
then studied law in the office of John Jones Clark (H.C. 
1823) and Lemuel Shaw (H.C. 1849) in Boston. He was 
of an amiable disposition, modest and unassuming in his man- 

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506 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1862-63. 

ners. His tastes wore naturally quid and scholarly; yet he 
had a spirit of adventure and a fondness for manly Bports, 
which led him, after three years teaching, and reading law, to 
join a party fin- travel and exploration to the South-west. His 
arrangements, however, were not carried out, and he returned 
after a brief absence. In August, 1861, he enlisted for three 
years in Capt. Saunders's company of sharpshooters, determined 
to devote himself to the service of his country. On the morning 
of his departure for the seat of war, he, after an examination, 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was an excellent marks- 
man ; and, from his first fight in a skirmish at Edwards's Creek 
to the day of his last battle, he did his duty with his corps as a 
true soldier of the flag. 

1858. — Paul Mitchell Eliot died in the city of New 
York, 26 November, 18(52, aged 25 years. lie was son of 
Hon. Thomas Dawes and Frances Lincoln (Brock) Eliot, 
and was born in New Bedford, Mass., 13 September, 1837. 
His father was son of William Greenleaf Eliot, and was born 
in Boston, 20 March 1808. He graduated at Columbian Col- 
lege, Washington, D.C., in 1825, his parents having resided 
many years in Washington ; is a lawyer in New Bedford, and 
is now a representative in Congress from the First Congres- 
sional District of Massachusetts. The mother of young Eliot 
was a native of Nantucket. He was a student at the Friends' 
Academy in New Bedford, under the instruction of Mr. Abner 
Jones Phipps (D.C. 1838), from 1847 to 1850, when he entered 
the Bristol Academy in Taunton, Mass., under Mr. Henry 
Blatchford Wheelwright (H.C. 1844), where he completed his 
preparatory studies for entering college. After graduating, he 
determined to engage in mercantile business. In October, 1858, 
he went to St. Louis, and, 1 January, 1859, entered the count- 
ing-room of the Atlantic-Mills Co. in that city, where he 
remained one year, and, 1 January, 1860, entered the store of 
F. B. Chamberlain and Co. ; and while there, having been en- 
gaged one very hot day in marking goods in the sun, he Mas 
affected by a sun-stroke, from which he never recovered. 
In November of that year, he left St. Louis on account of ill 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 507 

health, and spent the winter in Washington, where his father 
was attending Congress ; and in March, 1861, returned to New 
Bedford. His brain having been affected, the disease produced 
mental imbecility. His father took him to New York, and 
placed him in a private hospital under the charge of a dis- 
tinguished physician, but without any benefit. He remained 
there more than a year, when death ended the scene. 

1858. — Dr. Henry Augustus Richardson died of con- 
sumption, in Cambridge, 1 July, 1863, aged 26 years. He 
was born in Boston, 25 November, 1836, the son of George 
C. and Susan Gore (Moore) Richardson. His father, now a 
merchant in Boston, was the son of a physician in Royalston, 
from whom Henry probably derived a fondness for the study of 
medicine, and a power of accurate observation, that led him to 
the same profession. When he was very young, his family 
removed to their present residence in Cambridge, where he pre- 
pared for college at the Hopkins Classical School, and at the 
High School. In 1853-4, he completed his studies at Exeter 
Academy, entering the freshman class in 1854. 

He early developed a taste for chemistry ; and, in college, he 
added a keen interest in anatomy and other branches of medical 
science, and, with a set of congenial minds, turned his attention 
to personal investigations. For six months before. graduation, 
he attended lectures at the Harvard Medical School, and in 
October, 1858, became a pupil of Dr. C. A. Davis, at the 
Marine Hospital in Chelsea, where he remained three years. 
During this period, he followed certain courses at the school ; in 
1860-1, attended regularly all the lectures; and received his 
degree in July, 1861. His classmates, Drs. Francis and Cobb, 
were associated with him at the hospital in the latter part of his 
residence. In May, 1861, he became assistant-physician in the 
hospital. In August, he passed examination in Boston ; was 
commissioned acting assistant-surgeon, and appointed to the 
steamer " Cambridge," Capt. Parker, of the North-Atlantic block- 
ading squadron. In this duty he remained nearly a year; the 
steamer being constantly employed in the blockade of Beaufort 
and Wilmington, N.C. In his exposure to cold and wet, and 



508 NECEOLOGY OF ALUMNI [INOL'-r,:;. 

restraint from exercise, while upon this Bervice, the development 
of the (list i>c commenced, which had been fatal to his mother 
mid older brother. 

In July, 1<SG2, he was forced by his ill health to resign his 
commission ; and spent the following months, till November, in 

the southern part of New Hampshire. As a last expedient, to 
stay the disease by residence in a dryer climate, he went to Min- 
nesota, and spent the winter and spring at St. Paul. But the 
winter was extraordinarily open ; and the melting snow filled the 
air with moisture, so that he derived no benefit from the change. 
In March, he was joined by his brother, and seemed to gain 
strength till his return home in the last of May. From this 
time he rapidly failed, but remained constantly cheerful and 
social, though perfectly aware of the nature of his decline. On 
class-day, being unable to witness the festivities on the college- 
grounds, he invited several classmates to a quiet party in his 
own room. One of his last acts was to send for the photographs 
of his class, that he might recall their memories, and enjoy the 
pleasure of their silent society. 

Dr. Richardson lacked the brilliant gifts that have made 
others distinguished. He was not ready of speech, or skilful in 
gathering the learning of books, but was conscious that his pe- 
culiar talent would be discovered in studies requiring a power of 
exact and complete observation. In this he remarkably excelled, 
and he wisely guided himself by it in the choice of a profession. 
He was sincere, courteous, and frank, though reserved, gener- 
ous, and devoted in his friendships to a remarkable degree ; 
signally free from vanity ; devoid of envy or malice ; sympathiz- 
ing, cheerful, full of animal spirit and the zest for nature, and 
gifted with a quick sense of humor. His firmness and self-reli- 
ance fitted him peculiarly for his profession, while his personal 
traits made him a favorite in every professional and social rela- 
tion. 

1858. — Lieut. Thomas Jefferson Spurr died in Hagers- 
town, Md., 27 September, 1862, of wounds received in the 
battle of Antietam, on the 17th of the same month, at the age of 
twenty-four years. He was son of Samuel D. and Mary A. 



1862-63.] OP HARVARD COLLEGE. 509 

{Lamb) Spurr, and was born in Worcester, Mass., 2 February, 
1838. He was fitted for college at the Worcester High School, 
under the instruction of Mr. George Capron (B.U. 1847). At 
the outset of his college career, he took rank with the foremost ; 
but, in the second term of his junior year, an affection of the 
eyes came upon him, compelling him to withdraw from his stud- 
ies for a while. He made a voyage to Fayal, returned with 
improved health , and resumed his connection with his class ; but 
was compelled to employ the aid of a " reader." He was 
honored by his classmates with an election to the Phi-Beta- 
Kappa Society, as a token of the rank which he would have held 
but for his affliction. After graduating, he studied law in the 
office of his brother-in-law, George Frisbie Hoar (H.C. 1846) ; 
and in September, 1859, he entered the Law School at Cam- 
bridge, and continued his studies until the first of April, 1861, 
when he sailed for Russia, in the bark "Ethan Allen," for a plea- 
sure-trip, to return through England in the autumn. Hearing of 
the rebellion, he hastened home to offer his services to his coun- 
try. He was commissioned as first-lieutenant in Company G, in 
the Fifteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, and held 
his commission until his death. At the battle of Antietam, he 
fell while forming his company in line. He was removed by a 
rebel officer to the shade of a haystack, where he lay four davs. 
On the 21st, he was found by Ins friends, and removed to a 
better shelter; and, on the 22d, was moved to Hagerstown, eight 
miles, where his mother, his family-physician, and other friends, 
met him on the 24th ; and on Saturday, the 27th, he tran- 
quilly passed away. He expressed no regret at his fate, saying 
that he knew that many must fall, and he would claim no exemp- 
tion. His character exhibited a combination of womanly gentle- 
ness with manly strength : he was "pure in heart," and a true 
Christian. 

The following letter from Lieut. -Col. Kimball, of the Fif- 
teenth Regiment, is indicative of the estimation in which he was 
held by his associates in arms : — 



510 NKCROLOGY OF ALUMNI [1802-0:]. 

" WABRENTOR, Ya.. Nov. 18, I 362. 

" The death of Lieut. SpuiT was a sail blow to the regiment. I lis 
plf»ee cannot he filled. He came among us a stranger to us all ; but 
by his manly traits of character, his kind, noble, and generous nature, 
he won the esteem of all, — officers and men. He was ever faithful 
to his trust; and his courage and bearing were undoubted. His 
memory will be most dearly cherished by hi| comrades ; and they will 
always point with pride to his private virtues and his military career, 
which were such as it would be alike honorable and manly to follow. 
His noble bearing on the battle-field of Antietam, where he refused to 
be carried to the rear when mortally wounded, was worthy of the 
man, the hero, he was ; and won the praise of all his companions." 

1859. — Capt. George Wellington Batchelder was 
killed in the battle of Antietam, 17 September, 1862, aged 23 
years. He was son of Jacob (D.C. 1830) and Mary W. 
(Wellington) Batchelder, and was born in Lynn, Mass., 20 De- 
cember, 1838. His mother was daughter of the late Rev. 
Charles Wellington, D.D., ofTempleton, Mass. (H.C. 1802). 
He w r as fitted for college at the Lynn High School under the 
instruction of his father. He held a respectable rank of scholar- 
ship in his class, and graduated with honors. After leaving 
college, he studied law about a year and a half in the office of 
Perry and Endicott, of Salem. At his country's call in April, 
1861, he was one of the first to enlist in the ranks ; and, two 
days after his return with the three-months' troops, he enlisted 
for three years. He Avas commissioned as first lieutenant in 
Company C of the Nineteenth Regiment, and was afterwards 
promoted to the captaincy of the same company. On the even- 
ing previous to the eventful 17th of September, he gave to his 
lieutenant, the late lamented Newcomb, special directions to be 
followed if it should be his lot to fall on the next day ; and, in 
the hottest of the battle of the 17th, called him again to his side, 
repeated his injunctions, and informed him where he would find 
a record of his wishes. Among these occurs the following 
sentence, written with a pencil, though unsigned by him: "I 
wish my books to go to my father and mother, and, after 
their decease, to be given to Harvard College." His sisters, 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 511 

who alone are interested in the final disposition of his books, 
will he ready at the appointed time to execute the sacred 
trust. t 

A letter from Lieut. Hill, of the Nineteenth Regiment, says, 
"While rallying his company, George received two wounds, — 
one from a fragment of a shell, and one from a bullet. His 
health impaired by disease from which he had not recovered, 
and the loss of blood, rendered the wound fatal. He died in 
the afternoon of the same day, passing from sleep to death 
quietly and without a struggle, — his last words, 'Mother, O 
my mother!'" Lieut. Hill continues: "We all feel, that, in 
losing him, we have met with an irreparable loss. How can we 
feel otherwise, when, by his kind and cheerful disposition, his 
upright and honorable dealings with all, his brave and unflinch- 
ing: courage, he has bound himself so closelv to us all?" He 
well deserved the compliment I once heard paid him by a fellow- 
officer, who said of him, " He was the most honorable man I ever 
knew." With a well-stored mind, and a communicative dis- 
position, it was impossible to be long in his society without 
learning something. As an officer, he had no superior. Firm, 
yet gentle, he secured the love and respect, as well as the cheer- 
ful and ready obedience, of his inferiors. Sharing with his 
men, without complaint, the dangers and hardships of the cam- 
paign, he secured their confidence, and, in battle, urged them 
on to deeds of valor by his own noble example. He died in a 
noble and just cause, — the cause he espoused, and for which 
he endured so many hardships and privations to sacrifice his life 
for his country. Another fellow-officer says, with impressive 
beauty of expression, "We had pictured for him a glorious 
future : shall it be less bright because not wrought out in our 
presence?" Another, a clergyman and a classmate, after a 
visit to the old college-rooms, writes, " I could not restrain a 
sharp pain at his early death ; but there followed a soothing- 
satisfaction at the thought of his generous 'self-sacrifice for his 
country's sake, and I felt the stimulus of his brave example. 
The spirit that hath such power to quicken and strengthen our 
spirits cannot die." 



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1859. — Henry Weld Fuller died in Roxbury, Mass., 
3 May, 18G3, aged 23 years. He was son of Henry Weld 
(Bowd. C. 1828) and Mary Storer (Goddard) Fuller, and was 
born in Augusta, Me., 7 December, 1839. His father was son 
of Henry Weld Fuller (D.C. 1801), of Augusta. His mother 
was daughter of Nathaniel and Lucretia (Dana) Goddard, of 
Boston. He was fitted for college at the Roxbury Latin School 
under the instruction of Mr. Augustus Howe Buck. During 
his collegiate course, he met with a severe accident in the streets 
of Boston ; having been knocked down by a runaway horse, 
whereby his spine was injured, and from which he never fully 
recovered. In consequence of this, he was interrupted in his 
studies in college for a considerable time, and was" thus pre- 
vented from gaining such a standing of scholarship as his talents 
would have enabled him to take. Immediately after graduat- 
ing, he entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he re- 
mained until his impaired health obliged him to leave ; and his 
bright prospects of entering upon the active duties of life were 
thus early extinguished to enter into the brighter scenes of an- 
other existence. The great charm of his genial nature was his 
kindness of heart and perfect disinterestedness. The sunny 
cheerfulness of his character sustained him through the weary 
days and sleepless nights of his long illness, and seemed to 
triumph over the insidious malady to which he finally succumbed. 
His tastes were simple and pure ; and they reflected the charac- 
ter of his mind, which was allied to every thing noble, gener- 
ous, and true, and were strikingly exemplified in his fondness 
for whatever was most refined and elevated in literature and 
art. 

1859. — Francis Curtis Hopkinson died in Stanley Hos- 
pital, in Newbern, N.C., 13 February, 1863, aged 24 years. 
He was the eldest son of Hon. Thomas (H.C. 1830) and 
Corinna Aldrich (Prentiss) Hopkinson, and was born in Keene, 
N.H., 11 June, 1888. He was fitted for college in the Boston 
Latin School, where he was distinguished for his acquirements 
in the classics. During his college-course, he was distinguished 
for his facility in English composition and Latin versification, 



1862-63.] OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 513 

for which he took a Bowdoin prize. He also contributed several 
humorous articles for the " Harvard Magazine." After graduat- 
ing, he was employed for some time in writing critical notices 
for the "Boston Daily Advertiser," and was soon afterwards 
engaged for a similar service for the "Atlantic Monthly." He 
Avas at this time a student-at-law in» the office of Horace Gray, 
jun. (H.C. 1845), and the late Wilder Dwight (H.C. 1853) ; 
and Avas completing his studies at the LaAv School in Cambridge, 
when the call came for the nine-months' men. He then felt that 
the Avar Avas a matter of self-defence and of honor to the North. 
He enlisted, in August, 1862, from Cambridge, in Company F, 
Massachusetts Forty-fourth, as a private. He was in both of 
Gen. Foster's expeditions, and was warmly engaged at the battle 
of Whitehall, near Goldsborough, N.C. In that battle he fought 
with Company A, his own company not being engaged ; and he 
Avas highly praised by his officers. He caught a fever while on 
picket on the 18th of January ; and, during his entire illness, 
he Avas delirious, with very brief intervals. From the time he 
enlisted, he seemed to have a strong presentiment that he should 
not return ; and he remarked to a friend, that he hoped he should 
not«die in a hospital. It seemed, hoAvever, to Infinite Wisdom, 
that his Avish in this respect should not be granted. Esteemed by 
his officers, his wit, \ T ivacity, cheerfulness, and good nature Avere 
the traits which endeared him to his companions of the barrack. 
By them he Avas elected to preside at the dinner given by the 
company upon ThanksgiA r ing day, AA r hen his few touching re- 
marks shoAved Iioav dearly he loved the home which he had sacri- 
ficed so readily to what he deemed his duty. 

1859. — Capt. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff fell at 
the battle of Cedar Mountain, near Culpepper, in Virginia, 
9 August, 1862, at the age of twenty-four years. He was born 
in Boston, 16 March, 1838, and Avas the first-born child of his 
parents, Nathaniel Bradstreet (H.C. 1831) and Sarah Eliza 
(Smith) Shurtleff, both of Avhom are now living in Boston, their 
native city. His grandparents, on his father's side, Avere Dr. 
Benjamin (B.U. 1796) and Sally (Shaw) Shurtleff, who took 

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up their abode in Boston on marriage, about the commencement 
of the century, leaving the county of Plymouth, where their 

ancestors had dwelt since the first settlement of the Old Colony, 
nearly all of the most remote of them having come to New Eng- 
land in either the "May Flower," "Fortune," or "Ann," the three 
earliest vessels that conveyed the Pilgrim forefathers to these 
shores. On his maternal side, his grandparents were Hiram and 
Sarah Remington (Beal) Smith, also of Boston. 

The subject of this notice received his early school-training in 
the Boston public schools, and took a Franklin medal in 1850 
at the Adams School, then kept in Mason Street; and another 
in 1<S55 at the public Latin School, where he was fitted for col- 
lege under the pupilage of that eminent scholar and teacher, 
Francis Gardner (H.C. 1831), and from which he immediately 
entered the university, chumming the first year with his school- 
mate and classmate, Clinton A. Cillev, and rooming alone the 
remainder of the college course. On leaving college, he entered 
active life with all those high hopes which naturally belong to 
youth, ambition, cultivation, and brilliant talents. Even in his 
college and in his schoolboy days, the determined character and 
firm-set principles which marked him as a man shone forth. «The 
eldest son of a family possessing an unusually large share of the 
Puritan blood of the first settlers of New England, and long 
identified with Protestantism, he became a Roman Catholic while 
at school, and for the remainder of his life was a devoted adhe- 
rent of that communion, humbling himself to his new r faith, and 
gathering around him large numbers of the young and neglected. 
to whom he gave instruction, and over whom he watched with 
the strictest vigilance and almost parental care. Immediately 
after leaving college, he entered the novitiate of the order of 
Jesuits, at Frederick City, in Maryland, and there continued until 
the following February, when, failing in health, in consequence 
of the strict personal discipline, hard study, enfeebling depriva- 
tions, and self-sacrificing labors, he was obliged to undergo, he 
set aside, for a while, his great purpose of life : and thereupon 
entered the law office of William Brigham (H.C. 1829) in 



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Boston, where he was making good progress in his studies when 
the present unnatural rebellion broke out. 

Having an ardent temperament, and being an enthusiast for 
the unsullied preservation of the constitution, and for the union 
of the states, which he warmly advocated by his public acts and 
speeches, he, on the 20th of April, 1861 (the day after the brutal 
assault upon the Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers by 
a mob in Baltimore) , determined to devote himself to the cause of 
his country, and tendered his services to Fletcher Webster (H.C. 
1833), to assist in enlisting the Twelfth Regiment for the three- 
years' service ; and, on the following Monday morning, opened 
papers in the Merchants' Exchange, in Boston, for that purpose. 
So great was the success of this effort, that, in less than three 
days from the opening of these papers on the 2 2d of April, the 
regiment was filled and the lists closed, men enough for sixteen 
full companies having offered for the service ; and the organiza- 
tion of the regiment was completed in the short space of sixteen 
days ; for, on the 7th of May following, the Webster Regiment (for 
by this name it will ever be remembered) was uniformed, armed, 
officered, and in camp at Fort Warren, in Boston harbor. 
Mr. Shurtleff, who had served as a private in the Independent 
Company of Cadets of Boston, was elected by Company D, which 
he joined, as captain ; and the company, in consequence of being- 
adopted by the Latin School, took for name " The Latin-School 
Guard." Nearly three long and dull months to the soldiers, who 
were anxious for service, were spent by this regiment at Fort 
Warren ; and, although it was sooner mustered into the United- 
States service, it was not until the 23d of July, 1861, that this 
magnificent regiment, whose excellence for drill and discipline 
had become famous, left Fort Warren for the seat of war. A 
short time before leaving the fort, the Latin-School boys pre- 
sented their adopted company with a classic standard, constructed 
after the ancient form of that borne by the Roman maniple. The 
following extract from Capt. Shurtleff's almost prophetic speech 
of acceptance will clearly exhibit his feelings, and the truly 
heroic and noble sentiments which governed every action of his 
life. He spoke in behalf of his company, as follows : — 



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" I hardly know in what way best to return to yon, my fellow- 
schoohnates, on behalf of the Latin-School Guard, our sincere and 
heartfelt thanks. I thank you for your sympathy for nic, and more 
especially my command. Our thanks for the standard which you have 
presented us, much as we shall prize it as an emblem of the esteem 
in which we are held by the members of the Latin School, are as 
nothing in comparison with the gratitude! we feel toward you for the 
innumerable favors you have shown us in a way in which we are much 
more likely to be neglected. Presentations of banners and swords, 
where a grand display is to be made and speeches exchanged, are very 
pleasant things ; while the more substantial favors, such as we have 
received from you, are too apt to be overlooked and neglected." 
After referring to the causes of the delays which the regiment had 
suffered in getting into the field for active service, he continued, 
referring to the standard : " But, sir, our eagle, upon which the sun 
smiles now so auspiciously, differs in one marked respect from the old 
Roman eagle. That was the signal for carnage. Wherever that 
eagle was seen to float, chains and slavery were sure to follow. Ours 
is our own noble American eagle, which raises its talons to 'strike 
those only who destroy the holy Temple of Freedom. Yes, we will 
' strike till the last armed foe expires.' Our eagle will strike his beak 
into the brain of every man who shall be found with arms in his hands, 
lifted against the Constitution of the country ; but, unlike the Roman 
eagle, when victory has crowned our banners, when our flag waves 
proudly once more, then his thirst for blood will be satiated, his talons 
will sink into their place, and he will return to you, no longer the fierce 
bird of w r ar, but the emblem of the victory of truth and freedom over 
error and oppression. Although I can never hope to meet my school- 
mates again with my ranks as full as they are to-day (for we are liable 
to the chances of war ; and it may be that I, who now address you, 
will lay my bones beneath some Southern soil), it may be that these, 
my children, for whom I would lay down my life, — not one of them 
will ever return ; but, should that be our fate, it will be, at least, a 
glorious one. We ask only, that, if it be our lot to fall in the cause 
of liberty and justice, it may be remembered by you all, that for 
liberty we fought, and for liberty we fell ; and that our eagle shall be 
returned to you ; and that upon the walls of your beautiful hall, where 
many an ancient Roman relic hangs, you may place this eagle ; and 
when some visitor shall look upon it, all grimed with smoke and 
blood, — not blood of Gaul or Allobrogian, but of our own citizens 



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who fought and bled for freedom, — and ask its history, some future 
master of the school may say, ' In the year 1861, a son of the great 
expounder of the Constitution went forth to fight the battles of his 
country, and under his command went a company representing the 
Latin School. They fought, triumphed, and died ; and that eagle was 
their standard.' " 

From the time Capt. Shurtleff left Massachusetts, until his 
decease, he was constantly engaged in the service, except a few 
weeks in the subsequent September, when he was brought home, 
reduced nearly to death by the malarious fever so prevalent in 
western Maryland. From 26 January to 24 February, 1862, 
the last month that the Webster Regiment formed part of the 
division under Major-Gen. Banks, Capt. Shurtleff was detailed 
from his command to act as divisionary judge-advocate, — a duty 
which he performed to the highest satisfaction of his command- 
ing general and those under him. The regiment was not put 
under fire until August, 1862 ; and it was then, on the 9th of 
that month, at the battle of Cedar Mountain, that Capt. Shurt- 
leff — his company having been placed in an advanced position — 
was slain, the first to fall, as he was the first to enlist in its 
number. The regiment, having fallen into an ambush, had 
been ordered to lie down to avoid the fire of the enemy ; and his 
solicitude for the safety of his men cost him his life. He raised 
himself upon his elbow to see if they were protected, received a 
ball in his breast, had only time to utter, "I am shot ! — Mary ! 
— pardon ! " and was dead before he could be carried from the 
field. His dying expressions were those of a true man, Avho, in 
the solemn moment when he felt that he had given his earthly 
all for the cause he served, humbly and touchingly reposed in 
spirit with the God he worshipped. His body was conveyed by a 
trusty servant to Washington, where it was embalmed, and 
afterwards transported to Boston ; where, on the 16th of August, 
in accordance with his own request, the funeral services were 
performed in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in the 
imposing manner of the Jesuits, by a high-mass requiem. The 
remains were attended to Mount Auburn by the Cadets and a 
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repose, his last resting-place being marked by the emblem of the 
cross to which iii early life he had consecrated himself. 

This notice cannot be better closed than with the following 

appropriate tribute to his pure and noble life, from the pen of :i 
young friend who knew him well : — 

" And so was laid to rest all that remained here of Nathaniel B. 
Slmrtleff, jun., in the first morn of life, well educated, brilliant, enthu- 
siastic, and courageous. Early in college-life, he took a religious stand 
that marked him there — of all places — as singular indeed; but he 
never swerved from his position and belief to the day of his death. 
He was fixed in his opinions, and never hesitated to avow them. 

" Brought up a Protestant, at an early age he became a Catholic, 
and unhesitatingly placed himself at the service of the church. For 
whatever labor he was needed, he was ready. He worked energeti- 
cally and faithfully among the poor of his city ; he, with the reputa- 
tion of being the best writer and most eloquent speaker of his class 
at Harvard, devotedly toiled in the Sunday school, teaching the poor 
and ignorant ; he rallied men around him as he drew his sword ; he 
offered his life to his country, and his country has accepted and 
received the sacrifice. His last words were, not of home or "earthly 
endearments, but of spiritual yearnings. 

" He who, being a Protestant, condemns, in voice or heart, Nathan- 
iel B. Shurtleff, let him lead a more devoted life, possess a more obedi- 
ent spirit, live more earnestly, die more heroically ; let his last words 
show that his daily thoughts have been on heaven and with heavenly 
persons, and then let him leave the judgment with his Maker. For 
my own part, if I do not believe his creed as he did, yet do I consider 
his example as truly noble, manly, and pious. We may be happy to 
leave behind us as pleasant memories, — memories that will only 
brighten when the radiance of eternal sunlight shall be poured upon 
the acts of each man's life." 

1860. — Capt. Edward Gardiner Abbott was killed in 
the battle at Cedar Mountain, Va., 9 August, 1862, at the age 
of 21 years. He was the oldest son of Hon. Josiah Gardiner 
(H.C. 1832) and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, and was born 
in Lowell, Mass., 29 September, 1840. He was fitted for 
college at the Lowell High School. After leaving college, he 
began the study of law in the office of Samuel A. Brown, Esq., 



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of Lowell. As soon as the rebellion broke out, he was one of 
the first to offer himself for the defence of his country. He 
raised tjie first company in the Second Regiment, under Col. 
George H. Gordon, of which he was appointed captain; was 
the first captain who was sworn into the service in this state, 
and devoted himself with characteristic energy to the duties of 
his new profession. At the time of Gen. Banks's retreat, in the 
spring of 1862, he commanded two companies with a gallantry 
and coolness which elicited warm commendation from the officers 
on the field. His nature was manly and brave, and his affec- 
tions w r ere strong. In a postscript to a letter to his father, 
dated 2 August, — perhaps the last letter he ever wrote, — he 
says, "I wish to tell you how deeply affected I feel by your 
kindness in this and all other matters ; and I promise you, that, 
with God's help, I will never do any thing to cause you to be 
sorry for it, or ashamed of me." His father, in a letter to the 
mayor of Lowell, tendering his thanks to the people of that city 
for their deep sympathy with him and his family in their be- 
reavement, and in which he speaks of his son, who fell so gal- 
lantly doing his duty, says, "I have no certain information of 
the facts immediately connected with my son's death, except, 
generally, from the fact of his position as senior captain, his 
company was much exposed. His general writes me that he 
saw my son fall ; that his countenance in death was as ' proud 
and defiant, though placid,' as when he marched to the fight. 
I lis colonel, among other things, said his voice, in giving his 
command to his men, in the thickest of the fight, was as cheer- 
ful and calm as if on parade. In a pencilled note from my 
other son, in the same regiment, he says, c Ned fell while cheer- 
ing on his men.' I think I can add that he has repaid the many 
kindnesses he and his command have received from Lowell, by so 
acting that his native city can point to nothing in his life to be 
ashamed of." 

I860. — Lieut. Edgar. Marshall Newcomb died at Fal- 
mouth, Ya., 20 December, 1862, from wounds received in the 
battle of Fredericksburg on the loth of the same month, aged 
22 years. He was son of John J. and Mary S. Newcomb, and 



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was born in Troy, X.V., 2 October, L840; but his parents re- 
moved tn Boston when be was a few months old, where bis life 
was passed. He was fitted for college, partly at Qjhauncy- 

Ilall School, and partly at the Latin School, in Boston. lie 
held a respectable rank of scholarship in his class; but, before 
his collegiate course was completed, his health became bo much 
impaired, that he left in his senior year, before commencement, 
and went to Europe in the summer of 1860. He spent the 
autumn in travelling on foot through England and Prance, with 
the hope of improving- his physical condition. It had long- been 
his purpose to become a minister of the gospel ; but on his 
return from Europe, his health being still delicate, he entered 
his father's counting-room, and engaged in active business for 
a while. When the war broke out, with a generous disre- 
gard of his pecuniary interests, and of a home surrounded 
by all the attractions that make life pleasing, he came for- 
ward to volunteer as a soldier in the ranks, to defend the 
government of his fathers, and assert its rightful supremacy. 
He enlisted as a private in the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment when it was first formed, shared its fortunes, and con- 
tributed to its glory. Earning his promotion, step by step, he 
became sergeant-major, second- and finally first- lieutenant. 
That he did his duty as a faithful and brave officer, was fully 
shown by those who were with him in the hour of peril. Capt. 
Chadwick, in whose company he served, in alluding to his 
death, wrote as follows : "He was wounded in the legs in the 
fight of 13 December, before the batteries and rifle-pits on the 
enemy's left. The ball struck the brass band of his sword, 
passed through the left leg, and grazed the right. He was 
Avounded while holding the American flag high above his head, 
having just given up the state-colors. Both color-sergeants 
had* been shot down," — seven in succession. Other accounts 
say, "And Edgar sprang forward, and picked up both flags, hold- 
ing one in each hand, and called upon the men to stand by their 
colors. No braver officer or man ever stood upon the battle- 
field than Lieut. Edgar M. Newcomb ; and I am the more 
proud to say so, from the fact of the association existing be- 



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tween us. He was loved and respected before ; but that love 
and respect was more than doubled by his daring bravery and 
unflinching courage." His letters to his friends at home illus- 
trated his enthusiastic devotion to the cause of his country. He 
had passed with his regiment through fourteen battles and skir- 
mishes, unscathed. He frequently officiated as chaplain of his 
regiment ; preaching to the men, and holding prayer-meetings. 
Yet his modesty and reserve were such that he never mentioned 
the fact in his letters, and it was only learned by his friends 
after his decease. To his brother, who was with him in his 
dying hours, he remarked, "You have a work to perform in this 
life, and I will be with you. I feel that I shall be nearer to my 
friends after death than ever." Retaining his senses perfectly 
until his death, he called the men and his fellow-soldiers to his 
side, and gave to each a dying message, — to meet him in heaven. 
Dying there, in the sound of battle, he devised his property 
equally to the societies for home and foreign missions. 

1860. — Lieut. -Col. Charles Redington Mudge was 
killed in the battle of Gettysburg, 2 July, 1863, aged 23 years. 
He was son of Edward Redington and Caroline A. (Patten) 
Mudge, and was born in New-York city, 22 October, 1839. 
He was fitted for college at the private school of Thomas Gama- 
liel Bradford (H.C. 1822) in Boston. With the exception 
of a few months passed in preparing to enter business with his 
father, he was in the service of his country, having joined the 
Second Massachusetts Infantry, — the first three-years' regi- 
ment raised for the war. He went into the service with his 
whole soul. He was commissioned as first-lieutenant ; was pro- 
moted to be captain, 8 July, 1862 ; and was subsequently 
made lieutenant-colonel. While encamped at Brook Farm, 
he slept on the bare ground to prepare himself for the life 
which he was to lead. His regiment was spoken of as a 
model for its admirable drill. When they covered the rear 
of Gen. Banks's retreat, Col. Mudge was with them in their 
dangerous path ; and in the battle of South Mountain he re- 
ceived his first wound. The officers of his regiment never 
failed to express their opinion of his military qualities and 

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abilities in the highest terms. But there are other traits in his 
character which will be remembered with the warmest affection 
l>y his young contemporaries. In his college-course, his popu- 
larity was universal ; and he was a favorite in every clique, and 
in the most dissimilar sets. Every one was his friend in need : 
and no one would have hesitated a moment to have asked his 
services, with the certainty of a kind reception. 

1861. — Lieut. Pardon Almy was killed in the battle at 
Bull Run, Va., 30 August, 1862, at the age of 26 years. He 
was son of Pardon and Mary (Cook) Almy, and was born 
in Little Compton, R.I., 4 July, 1836. His father was son of 
Sanford and Lydia (Gray) Almy, and his mother was daughter 
of Samuel and Hannah (Little) Cook. All his ancestors have 
been residents of Rhode Island for some generations back. 

The subject of this notice was fitted for college at Pierce 
Academy in Middleborough, Mass. He held a very respectable 
rank of scholarship in his class. Immediately after graduating, 
President Felton gave him a letter to Gov. Andrew ; and the 
governor authorized him to recruit a company in New Bedford, 
for three years or -the war: but as the military enthusiasm 
had not been kindled there, the accomplishment of his purpose 
appearing too uncertain, and feeling that his duties were in the 
service of his country in the army, he accepted a lieutenant's 
commission in the Eighteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers, Col. James Barnes, where he served until his death. 
Some idea of his reputation and standing in the service may be 
inferred from the following extract of a letter to his brother 
from Major Joseph Hayes, who was in command of the regi- 
ment when he fell. He says, "I can only express to you my 
sincere sympathy in your great bereavement, and add my testi- 
monial to the high character of Lieut. Almy as a soldier and a 
man. His conduct in the engagement in which he fell is men- 
tioned in the highest praise by all the officers who were engaged 
with him. He fell in the very front, while bravely cheering on 
his men under a most galling fire, and displayed to the last a 
spirit of intrepidity and gallantry surpassed by no one. He 
was always prompt, faithful, zealous, and cheerful too, in the 



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performance of his duty as a soldier ; and I do not know a 
single blemish in his character as a man, but could enumerate 
many, very many, virtues that he possessed. You have lost, 
sir, a noble brother, and the country a gallant soldier." 

A meeting of his classmates was held in Boston on the 16th 
of September, when they passed a series of resolutions bearing 
testimony to his virtues. 

He was highly esteemed by his friends and relatives for his 
many good qualities of head and heart, for his sterling princi- 
ples and uniformly correct conduct ; and they confidently looked 
forward to a Ions; life to him of usefulness to his fellow-citizens, 
and of honor to himself: but his career was abruptly termi- 
nated, and the hopes of his friends were blighted. 

1861. — Capt. Henry Jonas Doolittle died in Racine, 
Wis., 10 August, 1862, aged 23 years. He was the eldest 
son of Hon. James R. and Mary Lovina (Cutting) Doo- 
little, and was born in Rochester, N.Y., 4 March, 1839. In 
1851, he removed with his parents to Racine, and soon after- 
wards became a pupil in Racine College. Two years later, he 
became personally interested in the truths of the gospel, and 
soon after united with the First Baptist Church in Racine. In 
his class, he held a respectable rank of scholarship. At the 
time of his graduation, the rebellion had just begun to exhibit 
its gigantic proportions. With his fellow-students in college, 
he received a military drill ; and was employed with them, by 
order of the governor, in guarding for a time the Massachusetts 
arsenal at Cambridge. After spending a few months with his 
father (who was a senator in Congress) in Washington, he 
returned to Racine, and was engaged in drilling Capt. Lyon's 
company in that city, and a company at Darlington, and had 
the promise of the post of major in one of the Wisconsin regi- 
ments ; which post, however, he failed to obtain. Early in 
the following spring, he accepted a position, with the rank of 
captain, upon the staff of Gen. C. S. Hamilton, with whom he 
served on the Peninsula ; then for a short time at Harper's Ferry ; 
and subsequently near Corinth. In July, he applied for a ten- 
days' furlough, in order to complete the family-circle gathered in 



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commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of" his parents' 
marriage. Ere he received his furlough, he was attacked with 
typhoid-fever, and went home to die. In the delirium of fever, 
after his return, he imagined himself still on his journey, and 
piteously entreated that he might he taken home : and God took 
him home, — a home which war shall never invade, and sorrow 
shall never mar, and death shall never enter. Strong in body, 
sound in mind, of rare energy, he sacredly devoted himself to 
his country's cause, and for his country he fell a martyr. His 
friends have this consolation, — that he was a Christian patriot, 
a kind brother, and a faithful son ; and it is a comfort that he 
breathed his last, not amid the horrors of battle, but under the 
paternal roof. 

1861. — Capt. William Yates Gholson was killed in the 
battle of Hartsville, Tenn., 7 December, 1862, aged 20 years. 
He was son of Hon. William Yates (N.J.C. 1825) and Elvira 
( Wright) Gholson, and was born in Pontotoc, Miss., 11 March, 
1842, but removed with his parents to Cincinnati in 1845. 
His mother belonged to a Virginia family, which had removed 
to Mississippi, where Mr. Gholson married her. He began to 
fit for college with Mr. Joseph Vernon, of Cincinnati, and com- 
pleted his preparatory studies in the private school of Eben 
Smith Brooks (H.C. 1835) in the same city. After gradu- 
ating, he began the study of the law with his father ; but, when 
the President made a call for three hundred thousand men, he 
determined to engage in the cause of his country. In Sep- 
tember, 1862, he was commissioned as captain in the One- 
hundred-and-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. In October 
following, he was appointed provost-marshal of South Frank- 
fort, Tenn. On the 8th of November, he was acting-assistant- 
adjutant-general of the Thirty-ninth Brigade, Fourteenth Army 
Corps, on the staff of Col. Moore. He fell while rallying 
his men. He was pierced with three bullets, — one near 
the heart, one in the forehead, and one in the temple. His 
intelligent patriotism demanded a country worthy of a sacri- 
fice ; and if, at last, he did not find it, it will hasten into 
being sooner because he fell evoking it. He was by nature 



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ardent and aspiring, of independent thought and active con- 
science, generous and affectionate. In hid death, fte bequeathed 
a conspicuous example of courage in the midst of general inca- 
pacity and cowardice ; and left no room for his many friends to 
grieve, except for their own loss. 

1861. — Samuel Dunn Phillips, of Boston, died at St. 
Helena Island, Beaufort, S.C., 5 December, 1862, aged 23 
years. He was son of Thomas Walley (H.C. 1814) and Anna 
Jones (Dunn) Phillips, and was born in Boston, 12 December, 
1838. He began to fit for college under the instruction of 
Mr. Thompson Kidder, of Boston ; but, from 1852 to 1857, 
he was studying in the Boston Latin School. After gradu- 
ating, he began the study of medicine, under the instruction of 
Dr. Edward Reynolds, of Boston (H.C. 1811). In January, 
1862, he was teaching a school in Tewksbury, Mass. In March 
following, he turned his attention to the unfriended blacks at 
Port Royal, S.C. ; and, on presenting himself before the Educa- 
tional Commission, he was approved, and sent out among the 
first. His deep religious convictions and eminent conscien- 
tiousness, joined with an ever-active benevolence and constant 
cheerfulness, gave him a near approach to the hearts of his 
people, and caused him to rank among the most useful of the 
superintendents. He made a visit to his home on account of 
indisposition, and returned much sooner than the precarious 
state of his health warranted ; -and thereby his life was sacrificed 
to his devotedness to his mission. 

1861. — Thomas Rodman Robeson died in Gettysburg, 
Penn., 6 July, 1863, of a wound received in battle, 3 July, 
aged 22 years. He was son of Thomas Rodman and Sibyl 
(Washburn) Robeson, and was born in New Bedford, 7 Novem- 
ber, 1840. His father died 13 August, 1848 ; and his mother 
removed subsequently to Brookline, and afterwards to Cambridge, 
where she now resides. He was fitted for college in Brookline, 
by William P. Atkinson (H.C. 1838) . He left his class in April, 
1861, to drill at Fort Independence ; and, on the formation of 
the Second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, he enlisted in 
it, and was commissioned, 28 May, 1861, as second-lieutenant : 



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30 November, 186*2, lie was promoted to be first lieutenant, and 
soon afterwards detached for duty in the signal-corps. In this 
service, he was present at the battles of Roanoke Island and 
Newbern, in February and March, 1862. In the following 

spring, his eyes becoming inflamed, he returned to his regiment, 
and took part with it in all its many battles and hardships to the 
time of his death. lie was wounded, 9 August, l<sii2, in 
the right fore-arm, at the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. He 
was promoted, 10 August, 1862, to be captain ; and was, at 
the time of his death, the senior captain of his regiment. In 
the battle of Gettysburg of the morning of Friday, 3 July, he 
was making a charge with his regiment, when he was mortally 
wounded by a minie-ball in the upper part of his right thigh. 
He was a brave and efficient officer, cool in action, always 
manly and dignified, and much esteemed by his men and his 
fellow-officers. 

1862. — Lieut. Henry RorES was killed in the battle of 
Gettysburg, Penn., 3 July, 1863, aged 24 years. He was son 
of William and Mary Ann (Codman) Hopes, and was bom 
near London, Eng., where his parents were temporarily re- 
siding, 16 May, 1839. His father is a native of Salem, and an 
eminent merchant of Boston. His mother was a daughter of 
Hon. John Codman, of Boston. He was fitted for college by 
Sidney Willard (H.C.1852), late major of the Thirty-fifth 
Massachusetts Regiment, killed at Fredericksburg, 14 Decem- 
ber, 1862. He was commissioned as second-lieutenant of the 
Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment, 25 November, 1861, and 
as first-lieutenant, 2 October, 1862 ; was with the regiment 
until his death, going through the Peninsula campaign, — siege 
of Yorktown, Fair Oaks, seven-days' battles, Antietam ; storm- 
ing of the city of Fredericksburg, 11 December, 1863 ; and Avas 
never wounded until he met his death at the battle of Gettys- 
burg. When in college, he took great interest in boating and 
other manly exercises, and was selected to be one of six men 
who composed the crew of the " Harvard," and was in this 
representative boat of the college during some of her proudest 
triumphs. He was well fitted by his physical strength to as- 



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sume the hardships of a campaign, but was cut down in the 
flower of his youth in the struggle with the enemy. His last 
march, the longest ever accomplished in one day by the Army 
of the Potomac, was borne with the utmost cheerfulness. He 
was the life of all about him, encouraging the weary, inspiring 
and enlivening the men of his command, whose testimony has 
been given to the beautiful spirit and kindly temper with which 
the fatigues of the day were endured by him. The last act of 
his life, of which there is any record, is touchingly characteristic. 
The battle of the day before had been severe, and many 
wounded were left upon the field. With noble self-forgetfulness , 
he went out at night with his cup of cold water to soothe and 
relieve those who were fainting and dying from wounds and 
thirst. Few instances of rarer patriotic impulse have been 
seen. Six weeks before his death, he visited his friends after 
the battle of Chancellors ville, and said, in reply to the hope they 
expressed that he would not return to the army, that no posi- 
tion of influence or wealth which could be offered to him, would, 
for an instant, tempt him to leave his regiment until the war was 
closed. War had no fascination for .him ; he longed for a right- 
eous and honorable peace : but, until that was proclaimed, he 
would never sheathe his sword. 

1862. — John Henry Tucker was killed in the attack on 
Port Hudson, Miss., 27 May, 1863, at the age of 28 years. 
He was son of Ebenezer and Eliza Bradlee (Foster) Tucker, 
and was born in Cambridge, Mass., 19 February, 1835. He 
studied at the public schools in Cambridge until April, 1851, 
when his father thought it best that he should learn a trade. 
He was accordingly apprenticed to his brother, who was a car- 
riage-painter. Although the drudgery which fell to his lot as 
a young apprentice was not at all to his taste, he persevered 
until he accpiired such a proficiency in his trade, that, when his 
time expired, his master offered him high wages to remain as 
journeyman. In the winter of 1855, he joined the Mechanic 
Apprentices' Library Association, where the literary exercise 
proved very attractive to him ; and the library afforded him in- 
formation which was eagerly collected. Such was his success in 



528 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE. [1862-63. 

this institution, that, on the occasion of the thirty-sixth anniver- 
sary of its foundation, he was chosen orator, and delivered an 
oration on the "Position of the Mechanic in Society," at the 
Meionian, 22 February, 1856". This oration has been printed. 
The future of literature thus opened to him proved so attractive, 
that he endeavored to advance yet further ; and, as a means, 
determined to enter college, if possible. In December, 1856, 
he entered the Cambridge High School; and in July, 1858, 
was admitted to Harvard College. During his college-course, 
he won the respect of all his classmates by his unassuming 
modesty and his high religious principle. Naturally quiet and 
retiring, he passed to and from recitations almost unknown by 
many of his class ; but those who knew him well valued him 
perhaps more for the very cmalities which restrained him from 
active participation in class-matters. Devoting himself to the 
study of theology, and the ministry of the Baptist church, which 
he joined in 1850, he felt that his country needed him in a ser- 
vice in every way opposed to his tastes, but in one where he 
might do good. He joined the Thirty-eighth Regiment. Among 
the first, he fell at the attack on Port Hudson. 



INDEX OF ALUMNI; 



WITH THE VEAItS OF GRADUATION AND DECEASE. 



Abbot, Abiel (1787), 1859 . 
Abbot, Daniel (1797), 1853. 
Abbot, Henry (1796), 1862 . 
Abbot, Jacob (1792), 1834 . 
Abbot, John (1798), 1854 . 
Abbot, Samuel (1808), 1839 
Abbott, Caleb F. (1831), 1855 . 
Abbott, Edward G. (1860), 1862 
Abbott, Henry H. (1859), 1859 
Adams, Charles F. (1843), 1856 
Adams, Daniel (1799), 1852 . 
Adams, Henry (1802), 1862 . 
Adams, Horace W. (1849), 1S61 
Adams, James B. (1847), 1853 
Adams, Josiah (1801), 1854 . 
Adams, Mark S. (1847), 1853 . 
Adams, Zabdiel (1759), 1801 . 
Adams, Zabdiel B. (1813), 1855 
Allvn, Rufus B. (1810), 1857 . 
Almv, Pardon (1861), 1862 . 
Andrews, Asa (1783), 1856 . . 
Andrews, George (1847), 1862 
Appleton, Francis H. (1842), 1854 
Atherton, Charles G. (1822), 1853 
Atherton, Charles H. (1794), 1853 
Austin, Elbridge G. (1829), 1854. 
Austin, John D. (1846), 1861 
Austin, William (1831), 1835 



Bacon, Rufus (1810), 1854 . 
Baker, George (1816), 1852 
Baker, Henry F. (1815), 1857 
Baker, Walter (1811), 1852 
Barnwell, Wm. H. W. (1824), 1863 
Barbour, James (1818), 1857 
Bartlet, William (1801), 1852 
Bartlett, Benjamin D. (1810), 1853 
Bartlett, Gorham (1845), 1854 . 
Bartlett, Josiah (1795), 1853 . . 
Batchelder, Francis L. (1844), 1858 
Batchelder, George W. (1859), 1862 
Bates, Joshua (1800), 1854. . 
Bates, Reuben (1829), 1862 . 
Beal, Thomas P. (1806), 1852. 
Beals, Isaac N. (1856), 1860 . 
Benjamin, James (1830), 1853 



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Bent, Nathaniel T. (1831), 1856 . . 144 

Bigelow, Edward I. (1848), 1854 . . 35 

Bigelow, Francis W. (1843), 1853 . 21 

Bigelow, Rufus (1831), 1832 . . . 145 

Birchard, Eliphalet (1843), 1854 . . 60 

Bliss, John (1808), 1854 41 

Blood, Oliver H. (1821), 1858 . . . 193 

Boutelle, Timothy (1800), 1855 . . 81 

Bowditch, Nathaniel I. (1822), 1861, 360 

Bowman, Charles D. (1838), 1857 . 149 

Bradford, Alden (1786), 1843 ... 257 

Bradford, George (1851), 1859 . . 283 

Bradford, William J. A. (1816), 1858, 257 

Bradley, Alexander R. (1831), 1862, 426 

Bradley, Caleb (1795), 1861 ... 338 

Braman, Isaac (1794), 1858 ... 214 

Brewer, John M. (1804), 1859. . . 303 

Brewer, Nathaniel (1814), 1853 . . 16 

Briggs, William A. (1838), 1859 . . 277 

Brooks, Gorham (1814), 1855 ... 84 

Brooks, Warren (1855), 1857 ... 159 

Brown, Arnold W. (1851), 1852 . . 9 

Brown, Bartholomew (1799), 1854 . 27 

Brown, George W. (1845), 1851 . . 9 

Brown, John (1813), 1852 .... 6 

Brown, Oliver (1804), 1853. ... 14 

Browne, Charles (1812), 1856 . . . 123 

Browne, John W. (1830), 1860 . . 326 

Bulfinch, George S. (1817), 1853 . 32 

Bulfmch, Henry (1821), 1853 ... 18 

Bullard, John P. (1829), 1848 ... 475 

Burnap, George W. (1824), 1859. . 323 

Burnap, Jacob (1770), 1821 ... 323 

Butler, Josiah (1803), 1854. ... 40 

Butfcerfield, Charles (1820), 1858. . 265 

Byers, Peter S. (1851), 1856 . . . 102 

Campbell, Edward F. (1808), 1861 . 402 

Capen, Lemuel (1810), 1858 ... 238 

Carroll, Charles (1823), 1862 ... 469 

Carson, William A. (1818), 1856 . . 128 

Cary, Thomas G. (1811), 1859 . . 242 

Caryl, Benjamin (1761), 1811 . . . 306 

Cenas, Hilary B. (1825), 1859. . . 326 

Chadwick, George B. (1858), 1861 . 442 

Chandler, James (1728), 17S9. . . 214 



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Chandler, Joshua (1807), 1854 . 
Chnndler, Nathaniel (1792), 1852 
Cheever, Charles A. (1818), L862 
Chickenng, Jesse (1818), is;,;, 
Cliikle, Edward V. (1828), 1861 
Chipman, Ward (1805), 1851 . 
Chisholm, James (1836), 1855. 
Clap, Ebenezer (1799), 1856 ^ 
Clapp, Thaddeus (1834), 1861 . 
Clarke, Manlius S. (1887), 1858 
Cleaveland, I'arker (1799), 1858 
Cobb, Henry (1854), 1855 . . 
Coburn, Henry P. (1812), 1854 
Codman, Henrv (1808), 1853 . 
Coffin, Charles (1793), 1853 . 
Coggin, Jacob (1803), 1854 . 
Cogswell, George W. (1849), 1854 
Coker Robert A. (1831), 1833 
Cole, Joseph G. (1822), 1851 . 
Cole, Thomas (1798), 1852. . 
Cook, Daniel (1830), 1853 . . 
Cooke, Alfred VV. (1852), 1852 
Coombs, George C. (1831), 1885 
Corbett, John H. (1819), 1855. 
Crafts, Samuel C. (1790), 1853 
Craneh, William (1787), 1855. 
Crocker, Frederick W. (1829), 1863 
Crocker, Samuel M. (1801), 1852 
Crosbv, Oliver (1795), 1851 . , 
Crosbv, William (1794), 1852. , 
Cross,' William G. (1842), 1854 , 
Cross, Robert (1819), 1859 . . . 
Croswell, Andrew (1798), 1858 . 
Crowninshield, Edw. A. (1836), 1859 
Cruft, Edward (1831), 1846 . . 
Cruft, William S. (1834), 1851 . 
Cummings, Asa (1817), 1856 . . 
Cummings, Enoch L. (1848), 1859 
Cunningham, Eph. M. (1814), 1852 
Cutter, Charles W. (1818), 1856 . 



Dabney, Francis O. (1851), 1858 
Dabnev, Frederic (1828), 1857 
Dall, John (1815), 1852 . . . 
Damon, David (1811), 1843 . 
Damon, Edward T. (1857), 1859 
Dana, Francis (1796), 1853 . . 
Dane, Joseph (1799), 1858 . . 
Davenport, James (1802), 1860 
Daves, John (1853), 1855 . . 
Davis, Thomas K. (1827), 1853 
Davis, William (1837), 1853 . 
Davis, William N. (1851), 1863 
Davison, Andrew C. (1815), 1856 
Day, James (1806), 1853 . 
Deane, Samuel (1760), 1814 
Deblois, John A. (1816), 1855 
Denny, Nathaniel P. (1797), 1856 
Derby, Ezekiel H. (1791), 1852 
Derby, Nathaniel F. (1829), 1830 
Devereux, John J. (1816), 1856 
Devereux, Nicholas (1829), 1848 
Dexter, Franklin ( 1812), 1857 . 
Dexter, Samuel D. (1843), 1850 
Dexter, Samuel W. (1812), 1863 
Doane, Augustus S. (1825), 1852 
Doolittle, Henry J. (1861), 1862 



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Dorr, Clifford (1825), 1858 . . 
Dorr, Samuel A. (1795), 1855 . 
Dorr, Thomaa W. (1823), 1854 
Diane, Robert B. (1824), 1862 
Draper, William (1803), 1858 . 
Dugan, James A. (1848), 1860 
Dumont, John T. P. (1824), 1852 
Dunbar, Asa (1767), 1787 . . 
Dntton, Francis L. (1831), 1854 
Dwight, Howard (1857), 1863. 
Dwight, John (1800), 1853. . 
Dwight, Wilder (1853), 1862 . 

Eaton, Asa (1803), 1858*. . . 
Katon, Joseph (1810), 1860 . . 
Eaton, Peter (1787), 1848 . . 
Eaton, Peter S. (1818), 1S63 . 
Edson, John (1848), 1857 . . 
Eliot, Paul M. (1858), 1862. . 
Eliot, Samuel A. (1817), 1862. 
Elliott, Ralph E. (1818), 1858 . 
Elliott, William (1809), 1863 . 
Emerson, Charles 0. (1818), 1863 
Emerson, Samuel (1785), 1851 
Erving, Langdon (1855), 1862. 
Eustis, George (1815), 1858 . 
Eustis, Horatio S. (1830), 1858 
Everett, Edward B. (1850), 1861 

Fales, Stephen (1810), 1854 . 
Farley, George F. (1816), 1855 
Farley, Joseph H. (1823), 1861 
Farmer, William (1819), 1862 . 
Farnham, Daniel (1739), 1776. 
Farnsworth, James D. (1818), 18 
Farrar, John (1803), 1853 . . 
Farwell, John (1808), 1852. . 
Farwell, Richard (1817), 1853. 
Fay, Samuel P. P. (1798), 1856 
Felton, Cornelius C. (1827), 1862 
Field, William P. (1851), 1859 
Fish, Phineas (1807), 1854 . . 
Fiske, Isaac (1798), 1861 . . 
Fiske, Thaddeus (1785), 1855 . 
Fitch, Jeremiah G. (1831), 1845 
Flanders, Charles (1808), 1860 
Flint, James (1802), 1855 . . 
Fogg, Henry M. R. (1849), 1862 
Foster, Alfred D. (1819), 1852 
Foster, William E. (1829), 1843 
Fox, Abel (1838), 1859 . . . 
Francis, Convers (1815), 1863 . 
French, Jonathan (1798), 1856 
French, Ralph H. (1798), 1855 
Friese, Henry F. (1831), 1853. 
Frost, Barzillai (1830), 1858 . 
Frost, John (1822), 1859. . . 
Frothingham, William (1799), 1852 
Fuller, Arthur B. (1843), 1862 
Fuller, Elisha (1815), 1855 . . 
Fuller, Eugene (1834), 1859 . 
Fuller, Henry H. (1811), 1852. 
Fuller, Henry W. (1859), 1863 
Furber, Frederick (1831), 1853 

Gage, Nathaniel (1822), 1861 . 
Gale, Frederick W. (1836), 1864 



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Gannett, Caleb (1763), 1818 . 
Gannett, John M. (1802), 1855 
Gardiner, John S. (1852), 1856 
Gardner, Henry (1750), 1782 . 
Gardner, Henry (1797), 1854 . 
Gardner, Henry (1798), 1858 . 
Gardner, John'( 1715), 1775 
Gassett, Henry (1795), 1855 . 
Gate*, Isaac (1802), 1852 . . . 
Gholson, William Y. (1861), 1862 
Gibbs, William P. (1832), 1852 
Gilchrist, John J. (1828), 1858 
Giles, John (1831), 1838. . . 
Gill, Moses (1805), 1862 . . . 
Gilman, Nicholas (1854), 1854. 
Gilman, Samuel (1811), 1858 . 
Glover, Lewis J. (1832), 1856 . 
Goodrich, John F. (1848), 1863 . 
Goodwin, Richard C. (1854), 1862 
Gorham, Benjamin (1795), 1855 . 
Gorham, William C. (1831), 1843 
Gould, Benjamin A. (1814), 1859 
Gould, James F. (1812), 1854 . 
Gourgas, John M. (1824), 1862 
Gragg, William (1820), 1852 . 
Gray, Francis C. (1809), 1856 . 
Greele, Samuel (1802), 1861 . 
Green, Aaron (1789), 1853 . . . 
Greene, Benjamin D. (1812), 1862 
Greene, Charles W. (1802), 1857 
Greenleaf, Thomas (1784), 1854 
Greenough, Horatio (1825), 1852 
Greenough, John (1824), 1852. 
Groce, Nahum H. (1808), 1856 
Guild, Benjamin (1769), 1792 . 
Guild, Benjamin (1804), 1858 . 
Guild, George D. (1845), 1862. 
Guild, Samuel E. (1839), 1862 

Habersham, Robert (1831), 1832 
Hagar, Moses (1831), 1860 . . 
Hale, Charles G. C. (1831), 1832 
Harrington, Joseph (1833), 1852 . 
Harris, Thaddeus W. (1815), 1856 
Harris, William C. (1807), 1853 
Harris, William T. (1846), 1854 . 
Hartshorn, Charles H. (1838), 1855 
Hastings, George H. (1834), 1854 
Hastings, John A. (1846), 1851 
Hatch, Daniel G. (1817), 1862. 
Haven, Joseph (1810), 1851 . 
Haven, Samuel F. (1852), 1862 
Hay ward, Charles (1806), 1855 . 
Hayward, Joshua H. (1818), 1856 
Hay ward, Lemuel (1768), 1821 
Head, George E. (1812), 1861 . 
Heard, George W. (1812), 1863 
Henshaw, Daniel (1806), 1863 . 
Hersey, Henry E. (1850), 1863 
Heywood, Benjamin (1840), 1860 
Hildreth. Ezek'iel (1814), 1856. 
Hill, Kbenezer (1786), 1854. . 
Hill, James S. (1852), 1857 . . 
Hinds, Ephraim (1806), 1858 . 
Hinklev, Edward (1813), 1854. 
Hoar, Samuel (1802), 1856 . . 
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Hodges, George F. (1855), 1862 
Hollev, Orville L. (1813), 1861 
Holliiigs worth, George (1857), 18 
Holman, Henry W. (1848), 1853 
Holyoke, Edward A. (1817), 185 
Hood, Julius S. (1860), 1861 . . 
Hopkinson, Francis C. (1859), 1863 
Hopkinson, Thomas (1830), 1856 
Hosmer, Rufus (1800). 1839 . 
Hosmer, Rufus (1834), 1861 . 
How, Henry J. (1859), 1862 . 
Howe, Isaac R. (1810), 1860 . 
Hubbard, Ebenezer (1777), 1800 
Hubbard, Ebenezer (1805), 1858 
Hubbard, -Henry B. (1854), 1862 
Hubbard, John*(1829), 1848 . 
Hunnewell, Walter (1787), 1855 
Hunt, Benjamin F. (1810), 1854 
Hunt, Ezra (1815), 1860 . . . 
Hurd, Isaac (1806), 1856. . . 
Hurd, Joseph (1797), 1857 . . 

Inches, Henderson (1792), 1857 
Ingalls, William (1790), 1851 . 

Jackson, Charles (1793), 1855 . 
Jackson, Leonard (1812), 1857 
Jacob, Nathaniel (1806), 1861 . 
Jaques, Abiel (1807), 1852 . . 
Jarvis, Leonard (1797), 1855 . 
Jarvis, Leonard (1800), 1854 . 
Jenkins, John F. (1818), 1862 . 
Jenkins, Solomon M. (1829), 1848 
Jewett, Isaac A. (1830), 1853 . 
Johnson, James (1808), 1856 . 
Johnson, Walter R. (1819), 1852 
Jones, John D. (1850), 1857 . 

Kendall, David (1794), 1853 . 
Kendall, James (1796), 1859 . 
Kendall, James B. (1854), 1859 
Kendrick, William P. (1816), 1854 
Kent, Benjamin (1820), 1859 . 
Kimball, Daniel (1800), 1862 . 
Kimball, David T. (1803), 1860 
King, James G. (1810), 1853 . 
King, John G. (1807). 1857 . . 
Kinloch, Frederick (1810), 1856 
Kittredge, Rufus (1810), 1854 . 
Knapp, Nathaniel P. (1826), 1854 

Labranche, Drausin B. (1834), 1853 
Ladd, John G. (1843), 1853 . . . 
Lane, John F. W. (1837), 1861 . 
Lane, Jonas H. (1821), 1861 . . 
Lawrence, Ebenezer (1795), 1856 
Leland, Aaron L. (1835), 1858. . 
Lemmon, Robert (1844), 1856 . . 
Lincoln, Henry (1786), 1857 . . 
Lincoln, Henrv (1830), 1860 . . 
Lincoln, Luther B. (1822), 1855 . 
Lincoln, Theodore (1785), 1852 . 
Livermore, Jonathan (1760), 1809 
Livermore, Solomon K. (1802), 1859 
Locke, Albert (1829), 1840 . . . 
Locke, John (1792), 1855 . . . 
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Lord, Nathaniel (1708), 1862 
Loring, Joseph ( 1786 1, 1857 
Lorinsr, Josiah Q. (1829), 1862 
Low, Seth (1804), 1868 . . 
Lowell, Charles (1800), L8i i 
Lowell, James J. | 1868), 1862 
Lowell, John (1721), 1767 . 
Lowell, John (1760), 1802 . 
Lunt, William 1'. (1823), 1857 



Manlev, Hiram (1825), 1853 . 
McKean, Henry S. (1828), 1857 
McKean, John G. (1831), 1851 
McKim, William I). (1852), 1868 
McLellan, Henrv 1!. (1829), 1833 
Manning, John (1M0), 1852 . 
Manning, Joseph B. (1808), 1854 
Manning, Samuel (1797), 1822 
Manning, Samuel (1822), 1857 
Marr, Nicholas L. (1845), 1854 
Marsh, John (1823), 1856 . . 
Mason, Charles (1832), 1862 . 
May, John P. (1849), 1862 . . 
Mefmm, William W. (1855), 1862 
Merrill, James C. (1807), 1853 . 
Mo-rill, John (1804), 1855 . . 
Middleton, Arthur (1814), 1853 
Minor, George (1836), 1858 . . 
Minor, Stephen (1801), 1861 . 
Mitchell, Nahum (1789), 1853 . 
Moody, George B. (1821), 1856 
Moore, Abraham (1806), 1854 . 
Mordecai, David H. (1854), 1859 
Morris, James (1846), 1853 . . 
Mower, Thomas G. (1810), 1853 
Mudge, Charles R. (1860), 1S63 
Mulliken, Edward (1846), 1857 
Murdoch, Charles T. (1828), 1853 

Neal, Edward H. (1852), 1856 
Kelson, Albert H. (1832), 1858 
Newcomb, Edgar M. (1860), 1862 
Newhall, Benjamin (1846), 1856 
Newman, Henry (1801), 1861 . 
Nichols, Ichabod (1802), 1859 . 
Nichols, John S. (1849), 1862 . 
Nichols, Paul L. (1845), 1852 . 
Norris, George W. (1852), 1857 
Norton, Andrews (1804), 1853 . 
Norton, Jacob (1786), 1858 . . 

Oliver, Francis J. (1795), 1858 
Orr, Hector (1792), 1855. . . 

Osgood, David (1771), 1822 . . 
Osgood, David (1813), 1863 . . 
Osgood, Gavton P. (1815), 1861 
Osgood, Robert H. (1811), 1856 
Otis, William F. (1821), 1858 . 



Paine, Charles (1820), 1853. 
Paine, Elijah (1814), 1853 . 
Parker, Benjamin C. C. (1822), 1859 
Parker, Benjamin F. (1881), 1844 
Parker, Frederick (1883), 1857 . 
Parker, Freeman (1797), 1854. . 
Parker, George P. (1812>, 1856 . 
Parker, Oscar F. (1850), 1854 . . 



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Parker, Thomas I. (1808), 1866 . 
Parkman, Francis (1807), L862 . 

Parkman, Samuel (1884), 1854 . 
Parkman, Samuel B. ( L867), 1862 
Parsons, Samuel (1848), 1859 . . 
l'ealiody, Everett (1849), 1862 '. 

Peabodv, William 15. O. ( 1816), 1847 435 

Pearson, William G. (1854), 1861 . 380 

Peirce, Charles H. (1833), 1855 . . 58 

Peirce, Cyras (1810), 1860 . ... 309 

Peirson, Abel L. (1812), 1853 ... 16 

Perkins, Stephen G. (1856), 1862. . 603 

Perry, Nathaniel (J. (1846), 1855. . 61 

Peters, John (1881), 1846 .... 146 

Phelps, Charles P. (1791), 1867 . . 163 

Phelps, Henrv (1788), 1852. ... 1 

Phillips, Grenville T. (1836), 1863 . 477 
Phillips, John (1788), 1823 . . .314,477 

Phillips, Samuel D. (1861), 1862 . . 525 

Phillips, Stephen C. (1819), 1857. . 131 

Phillips, Thomas W. (1814), 1859 . 314 

Pickman, Benjamin (1784), 1843 . . 312 

Pickman, C. Gavton (1811), 1860 . 312 

Pierce, James (1849), 1853 . ... 22 

Plumer, William (1809), 1854 . . . 42 

Poor, Arthur H. (1851), 1862 ... 437 

Pope, Augustus P. (1839), 1858 . . 202 

Pope, Thomas B. (1833), 1862. . . 428 

Popkin, John S. (1792), 1852 ... 2 

Porter, George D. (1851), 1861 . . 437 
Porter, Jonathan (1814), 1859 . .244, 437 

Preble, William P. (1806), 1857 . . 181 

Prentiss, John (1818), 1861 .... 408 

Prentiss, Nathaniel S. (1787), 1853 . 25 

Prentiss, Thomas (1766), 1814. . . 408 

Prescott, Aaron (1814), 1851 ... 7 

Prescott, Joshua (1807), 1859 . . . 234 

Prescott, Samuel J. (1795), 1857. . 108 

Prescott, William (1783), 1844 . . 249 

Prescott, William H. (1814), 1859 . 249 

Preston, Alfred H. (1854), 1859 . . 291 

Prince, J. Hardy (1819), 1861 ... 418 
Putnam, Samuel (1787), 1853 . . 11, 403 

Putnam, Samuel R (1815), 1861 . . 403 

Quash, Francis D. (1814), 1857 . . 126 

Rand, Benjamin (1808), 1852 ... 6 

Randall,, Abraham (1798), 1852 . . 4 

Rantoul, Robert, jun. (1826), 1852 . 19 

Raymond, Edward F. (1851), 1855 . 103 

Reed, Caleb (1817), 1854 .... 50 

Revere, Paul J. (1852), 1863 . . . 494 

Rhett, Ednrand (1854), 1863 ... 499 

Rice, George E. (1842), 1861 . . . 433 

Rice, Henrv G. (1802), 1853 ... 13 

Rice, Samuel B. (1816), 1863 ... 463 

Rice, Thomas (1791), 1854 . ... 36 

Richardson, Henry A. (1858), 1863 . 507 

Richardson, James (1797), 1858 . . 166 

Richardson, William (1832), 1856 . 95 

Richardson, William P. (1834), 1S57, 148 

Ritchie, Andrew (1802), 1862 . . . 453 

Ritchie, Andrew (1829), 1837 . . . 475 

Robeson, Thomas R. (1861), 1863 . 525 

Robinson, Charles (1818), 1862 . . 412 

Robinson, William 0. (1832), 1855 . 67 



INDEX OF ALUMNI. 



533 



Paqe. 

Rodman, William L. (*1842), 1863 . 478 

Rogers, Llovd N. (1808), 1860 . . 353 
Rogers, William M. (1827), 1851 ... 8 

Rogers, William M. (1860), 1862. . 449 

Ropes, Archer (1832), 1855. ... 96 

Ropes, Henrv (1862), 1863 .... 526 

Rowe, William H. (1853), 1858 . . 286 

Russell, Francis J. (1831), 1833 . . 146 

Russell, James D. (1829), 1861 . . 368 

Russell, Nathaniel (1858), 1862 . . 446 

Ryder, Thomas P. (1828), 1852 . . 20 

Sanders, George T. (1824), 1856 . . 93 

Sailer, Ralph (1808), 1860 ... 305 

Sanger, Zedekiah (1771), 1820 . . 305 

Savage, James (1854), 1862 ... 500 

Sawver, Amorv P. (1858), 1860 . . 336 

Sawyer, Franklin (1830), 1851 . . 8 

Sawyer, Micajah (1756), 1815. . . 212 

Sawver, Samuel (1826), 1859 ... 270 

Sawyer, William (1788), 1859 . . 212 

Sawver, William (1800), 1860. . . 294 

Sawyer, William (1828), 1852. . . 8 

Savles, Francis W. (1844), 1853 . . 22 

Schuyler, Stephen (1820), 1859 . . 320 

Scollay, Samuel (1808), 1857 . . . 119 

Seaton, J. Gales (1837), 1857 . . . 148 

Sedgwick, William D. (1851), 1862, 489 

Shaw, John (1729), 1791 .... 305 

Shaw, Lemuel (1800), 1861 ... 346 

Shaw, Oakes (1758), 1807 .... 346 

Shorey, Frank H. (1858), 1862 . . 446 

Shurtleff, Nathl. B., Jr. (1859), 1862, 513 

Silsbee, Francis H. (1831), 1848 . . 146 

Simmons, Charles F. (1841), 1862 . 432 

Simmons, George F. (1832), 1855 . 97 

Simmons, William (1804), 1843 . . 432 

Simmons, William H. (1831), 1841 . 146 

Simonds, Henry C. (1831), 1840 . . 146 

Smith, Henrv B. (1809), 1861 . . . 353 

Smith, Joseph B. (1844), 1859 . . 280 

Smith, Manasseh (1773), 1823 . . 307 

Smith, Samuel E. (1808), 1860 . . 306 

Smith, Thomas (1720), 1795 ... 225 

Sparhawk, Ebenezer (1756), 1805 . 398 

Spooner, Allen C. (1835), 1853 . . 21 

Sprague, Joseph E (1804), 1852 . . 4 

Spurr, Thomas J. (1858), 1862 . . 508 

Starr, John (1804), 1851 .... 5 

Stearns, William L. (1820), 1857 . 132 

Stevens, William O. (1848), 1863 . 483 

Stimson, Caleb M. (1824), 1860 . . 325 

Stone, Micah (1790), 1852 .... 11 

Stone, William L. (1850), 1857 . . 154 

Stowers, Joseph (1793), 1851 . . . 2 

Stuart, George 0. (1801), 1862 . . 450 

Stuart, Julius W. (1849), 1856 . . 153 

Sturges, Josiah (1795), 1852 ... 3 

Sullivan, John H. (1853), 1858 . . 288 

Sullivan, Richard (1798), 1861 . . 388 

Sullivan, Thomas R. (1817), 1862 . 464 

Sumner, Increase (1767), 1799 . . 390 

Sumner, William H. (1799), 1861 . 390 

Swett, John A. (1828), 1854 ... 56 

Swift, Seth F. (1807), 1858 .... 235 



Tappan, David (1771), 1803 



398 



Tebhetts, Theodore (1851), 1863 
Tennev, Edward J. (1853), 1853 
Thacher, George (1812), 1857 . 
Thaxter, Ezekiel (1812), 1856. 
Thaxter, Jonas W. (1838), 1854 
Thaxter, Robert (1798), 1652 . 
Thaxter, Thomas (1856), 1860 
Thomas, Gorham (1852), 1853 
Thomas, Isaiah (1825), 1862 . 
Thomas, John B. (1806), 1852 
Thompson, John (1822), 1854 . 
Thoreau, David H. (1837), 1862 
Thomdike, Augustus (1816), 1858 
Thurston, John R. (1829), 1843 
Tilghman, Charles H. (1831), 184 
Tilton, Joseph (1797), 1856 . 
Tilton, Nathan (1796), 1851 . 
Torrey, William T. (1806), 1861 
Townsend, David S (1809), 1853 
Tracv, Elisha W. (1843), 1860 
Treadwell, John D. (1788), 1833 
Treadwell, John G. (1825), 1856 
Tucker, John H. (1862), 1863. 
Tufts, Marshall (1827), 1855 . 
Turner, Charles (1752), 1818 . 
Turner, George F. (1826), 1854 
Turner, Royal (1813), 1862 . . 

Upham, Charles W. (1852), 1860 
Upton, Elias (1802), 1857 . . . 

Very, Washington (1843), 1853 . 

Wadsworth, John (1800), 1860 . 
Wainwright, Jona. M. (1812), 1854 
Walcott, Samuel B. (1819), 1854. 
Wales, Henry W. (1838), 1856 . 
Wales, Thomas B. (1795), 1853 . 
Walker, Joseph H. (1843), 1858 . 
Walker, Sears C. (1825), 1853 . 
Walker, Timothy (1826), 1856 . 
Walton, John (1791 \ 1862 
Ware, Robert (1852), 1863 . 
Ware, William (1816), 1852 
Warren, John (1771), 1815. 
Warren, John C. (1797), 1856 
Warren, Joseph (1759), 1775 
Warren, Silas (1795), 1856 . 
Waters, George E. (1847), 1851 . 
Watson, Benjamin M. (1800), 1851 
Watts, Francis O. (1822), 1860 . 
Webb, Seth (1843), 1862 . . . 
Webster, Fletcher (1833), 1862 . 
Weed, Jared (1807), 1857 . . . 
Weed, Samuel (1800), 1857 . . 
Welch, John H. (1835), 1852 . . 
Welles, Benjamin (1800), 1860 . 
Welles, John (1782), 1855 . . . 
Welles, Samuel (1796), 1841 . . 
Wellington, Charles (1802), 1861 
Wellington, Timothy (1806), 1853 
Wells, "William (1796), 1860 . . 
Weston, Ezra (1829), 1852 . . . 
Wetmore, Thomas (1814), 1860 . 
Wetmore, William (1770), 1830 . 
Wheatland, Benjamin (1819), 1854 
Wheeler, Abner'B. (1831), 1847 . 



Tage. 
490 

35 
124 
125 

34 

4 

383 

35 
420 

14 

33 
430 
258 
475 
146 

76 

3 

400 

15 
329 
140 
140 
527 

56 
400 

55 
460 

331 

116 

22 

295 

46 

52 

100 

12 

279 

19 

93 

450 

495 

7 

77 

77 

77 

75 

9 

4 

363 

481 

476 

185 

172 

21 

349 

66 

350 

398 

14 

293 

20 

316 

316 

53 

146 



534 



INDEX OF AUMXI. 



Wheeler, Frederick (1864), 1867 . , 206 

Wheelwright, Joseph (1811), 1868 . 31 

Wheelwright, Wm. C. (1861 1, ISS i . 62 

Whipple, Augustus W. (1849), L852, 22 

White, Daniel A. (1797), L861. . . 889 

White, John (1806), L862 .... 6 

White, Nathaniel W. (1*12), 1860 . 866 

White. William A. (1888). 1856 . . 150 

Whitinc, Henrv (1842). 1*57 ... 151 

Whitnev, Alexander (1831). 1842 . 146 

Whitner, Asa H. (1888), 1858 . . 279 

Whitney, Simon (1818), 1861. . .' 414 

Whittemore, George (1857), 1862 . 605 

Whittemore, Jos. J. L. (1882), 1*60, 371 

Whittemore, Win. II. (1858), 1857 . 158 

Whittredge, Thos. 0. (1818), 1854 . 32 

Whitwell, John S. (1815), 1853 . . 17 

Wiggles worth, Samuel (1831). 1847, 147 

Wisglesworth, Thomas (1798), 1855, 37 

Wild, Jonathan (1804), 1862 . . . 399 

Wilev, Adams (1848), 1860 ... 331 

Wilk'ins, John H. (1818). 1861 . . 416 

Willard, Paul (1817), 1856 .... 91 



Willard, Samuel, (1808), 1850. 
Willard, Sidney (1798), 1866 . 
Willnrd, Sidney (1862), 1862 . . , 
Williams, Benjamin I'. | I860), 1866, 
Williams Edward P. (1887), 1*68 , 
Williams, Joseph B. (1880), 1868 



Wiswall, William I). (1*16), 1853 
Woodburr, James T. (1*23), 1861 

Woods, Leonard (1796), 1854 . . 
Wright, Frederick (1*31), 1*46 
Wrijrht, Hartley H (1831), 1840 
Wright, Luther (1796). 1858 . 
Wright, Nathaniel (1808), 1858 
Wright, Nathaniel (1*38), 1847 
Wyeth, Jacob (1792), 1857. . 

Yongue, Andrew L. (1855). 1859 
Young, Alexander (1820). 1854 
Young, William (1829), 1863 . 



T\r,r.. 

801 
118 

4 '.a; 

102 

34 

84 

869 

11 

12 

32 

366 

38 

147 

147 

165 

237 

238 

107 

334 
32 

476 



INDEX OF CLASSES. 



Class. Page. 

1715 169. 

1720 225. 

1721 343. 

1728 214. 

1729 305. 

1739 213. 

1750 169. 

1752 400. 

1756 212, 398. 

1758 346. 

1759 77, 452. 

1760 223, 226, 343. 

1761 306. 

1763 82. 

1763 408. 

1767 390, 431. 

1768 84. 

1769 178. 

1770 316. 323. 

1771 77, 305, 398, 459. 

1773 307. 

1777 232. 

1782 66. 

1783. . . • 67, 249. 

1784 25, 312. 

1785 1, 67. 

1786. . . . 25, 106, 107, 161, 257. 

1787. 11, 25, 68, 70, 208, 403, 465. 

1788 1, 140, 212. 314. 

1789 25, 26. 

1790 2, 11, 26. 

1791 11, 163, 450. 

1792 2, 107, 164, 208. 

1793 2, 11, 37, 70. 

1794 3, 11, 12, 214. 

1795. 3, 12, 38, 72, 73, 74, 75, 108, 

215, 338. 

1796. 3, 12, 26, 38, 165, 216, 293, 

350, 386. 

1797. 27, 39, 75, 76, 77, 109, 110, 

133, 166, 339. 

1798. 3, 4, 13, 27, 79, 80, 112, 113, 

168, 169, 341, 388. 



Class. 

1799. 
1800. 

1801. 
1802. 

1803. 

1804. 



1805. 
1806. 

1807. 
1808. 

1809. 
1810. 

1811. 
1812. 

1813. 
1814. 

1815. 

1816. 

1817. 

1818. 



1819. 
1820. 
1821. 
1822. 

1823. 
1824. 

1825. 



4, 13, 27, 81, 170, 220, 390. 
4, 28, 39, 81, 172, 294, 295, 

343, 346, 349, 375, 393. 
4, 13, 28, 199, 350, 395, 450. 
13, 39, 82, 114, 116, 176, 223, 

225, 296, 396, 398, 452, 453. 
13, 40, 41, 116, 178, 229, 297, 

301. 
4, 5, 14, 28, 41, 178, 303, 399, 

432. 
. . . . • 5, 6, 179, 232, 454. 
6, 14, 29, 84, 116, 181, 352, 

400, 455. 

15, 27, 30, 183, 185, 234, 235. 
6, 15, 30, 41, 84, 117, 119,208, 

237, 304, 305, 306, 353, 402. 
... 15, 42, 120, 353, 456. 
6, 16, 30, 31, 42, 43, 121, 123, 

238, 308, 309. 

6, 16, 31, 44, 68, 186, 242,312. 

16, 31, 45, 46, 84, 123, 124, 
125, 189, 353, 355, 457, 458. 

6, 16, 31, 47, 355, 459, 460. 

7, 16, 31, 84, 85, 126, 244,249, 
313, 314, 316, 437, 462. 

17, 48, 86, 127, 255, 357, 359, 
403. 

7, 17, 32, 48, 87, 88, 257, 258, 

435, 463. 
17, 32, 49, 50, 89, 90, 91, 406, 

407, 464. 

17, 32, 50, 51, 128, 129, 130, 
192, 316, 408, 412, 414, 416, 
465, 466, 467. 

7, 17, 52, 53, 131, 318. 418. 
. . 18, 32, 132, 265, 319, 320. 
... 18, 92, 193, 194, 419. 

8, 32, 33, 53, 133, 267, 321, 
360, 361, 363. 

. 54. 135, 137, 365, 366, 469. 

18, 19, 93, 323, 325, 420, 471, 
472. 

. . 8, 19, 140, 269, 326, 420. 






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53G 



INDEX OF CLASSES. 



Class. Paoe. 

1826 19, 33, 55, 93, 270. 

1827 8, 33, 56, 421. 

1828. . 8, 20, 33, 66, 141, 195, 196. 

1829. 20, 57, 368, 425, 473, 474, 475, 

476. 

1830. 8, 20, 33, 34, 143, 271, 326, 

328. 

1831. 20, 57, 144, 145, 146, 147, 369, 

426. 

1832. 21, 57, 95, 96, 97, 198, 371, 

427. 

1833. ... 21, 58, 147, 428, 476. 

1834. 8, 34, 58, 148, 274, 374, 375. 
1835 21, 275. 

1836. . . 21, 58, 98, 199, 276, 477. 

1837. ... 21, 34, 148, 429, 4150. 

1838. 34, 58, 100, 149, 150, 238, 277, 

279, 328. 

1839 202, 478. 

1840 376. 

1841 432. 

1842. ... 34, 59, 151, 433, 478. 

1843. 21, 22, 34, 60, 117, 153, 204, 

279, 329, 479, 481. 



Class. Paok. 

1844 22, 152, 280. 

1845 9, 34, 35, 433. 

1846. . 9, 22, 60, 61, 101, 205, 377. 
1847 9, 22, 482. 

1848. 35, 153, 282, 329, 330, 331, 

483. 

1849. 22, 35, 153, 379, 434, 435, 486. 

1850. . 62, 102, 154, 205, 436, 487. 

1851. 9, 62, 102, 103, 283, 284, 285, 

437, 489, 490. 

1852. 23, 35, 155, 157, 158, 331, 488, 

492, 494, 495, 496. 

1853. . 35, 104, 158, 286, 288, 497. 

1854. 36, 64, 65, 206, 290, 291, 333, 

380, 437, 499, 500. 

1855. . . 36, 37, 159, 334, 439, 441. 
1856 381, 3S3, 503. 

1857. . . . 335, 336, 503, 504, 505. 

1858. 336, 442, 443, 446, 506, 507, 

508. 

1859. . . . 337, 447, 510, 512, 513. 

1860. . . .448,449,518,519,521. 

1861 522, 523, 524, 525. 

1862 526, 527. 



ERRATA. 



Page 4, 8th line from bottom, for " E." read " E ". 

12, 14tli line from bottom, for " Bartlett" read "Bartlet." 

15, 12th line from bottom, for " S." read " S ". 

21, 11th line from bottom, for " Clark " read " Clarke." 

60, 9th line from top, for " 1815 " read " 1812." 
103, 3d line from bottom, for " Edmond " read " Edward." 
114, 17th line from top, for " Artemus " read " Artemas." 
145, 15th line from bottom, after " lawyer " read " son of Benjamin and Patience (Carver) 

Coombs, born in Middleborough in 1810." 
145, 3d line from bottom, for " 1814 " read " 5 October, 1813." 
148, 12th line from bottom, for " Gales Seaton " read "Joseph Gales Seaton." 



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